Ronald Reagan Filmography

Ronald Reagan: The Great Speeches

NBC News Presents: Ronald Reagan

Synopsis: Ronald Reagan was one of the most popular and most controversial political figures of his time. To many, he was a great communicator who helped bring America together, confronted Communism, and made a nation believe in itself again. To others, he was a man out of touch with many of his Read More

Ronald Reagan: An American Legend

Synopsis: This program from ABC News takes a look at the life of President Ronald Reagan by examining letters that he wrote over the years to Vietnam vets, farmers, leaders and other figures in history. The documentary also includes President Raegan's children who discuss their relationship with and Read More

Hell's Highway: The True Story of Highway Safety Films

Actors: Helena Reckitt

Synopsis: As the 1950s drew to a close, high school hygiene films and VD cautionary tales gave birth to another, far more graphic sort of fear-inducing curriculum: the driver's-ed movie. Bearing such titles as Signal 30, The Third Killer, Wheels of Tragedy, and Highways of Agony, these films -- usually Read More

Ronald Reagan: A Legacy Remembered

Actors: Frank Sesno, James Baker III, John Barletta, Pat Buchanan, George Bush

Synopsis: For this up-close-and-personal TV documentary, former CNN Washington bureau chief Frank Cesno was given unprecedented access to the memories of those people whose lives were profoundly touched by former President Ronald Reagan: family members, friends, political colleagues, advisors, fellow world Read More

Ronald Reagan: His Life and Legacy

Synopsis: Ronald Reagan: His Life and Legacy chronicles the life of the man who served as the 40th President of the United States of America. The film touches upon most every area of his remarkable life including his days as a radio sport announcer, his acting career, the change in his political beliefs Read More

Salute to Reagan: A President's Greatest Moments

Synopsis: Ronald Reagan was the first actor to be elected President of the United States and he certainly put his experience before the camera to good use during his administration. Reagan was a master of public speaking, able to communicate with a feeling of intelligence, depth, and personal warmth no Read More

American Experience: Reagan, Part I - Lifeguard

Actors: Mikhail Gorbachev, Margaret Thatcher, George Schultz, James Baker III, Ed Meese

Synopsis: This lengthy (4 1/2 hours) TV documentary on Ronald Reagan, part of The American Experience series, intercuts film clips, network feeds, home movies, and interviews to survey the life, career, philosophy, and policies of the 40th President of the United States. Interview subjects include Mikhail Read More

Powers of the President: Bureaucracy, Court, and Media

Great American Speeches: 80 Years of Political Oratory

Ronald Reagan: An American Success Story

Synopsis: This program finds President Ronald Reagan reflecting on his life in movies and politics. Narrated by Tom Brokaw, the documentary follows Reagan as he recounts stories from his youth, his start in broadcasting, his Hollywood years, and his eventful political career. The conversation between Reagan Read More

Wisecracks

Actors: Phyllis Diller, Whoopi Goldberg, Sandra Shamas, Jenny Lecoat

Synopsis: This concert and interview documentary features the racy wit of Canada and the U.S.'s most popular female comedians, including Jenny Jones, Whoopi Goldberg, Phyllis Diller, Ellen DeGeneres, and Paula Poundstone. In addition to screening their stand-up gigs and providing interviews with these funny Read More

Classic Bloopers

Classic Movie Bloopers

Synopsis: This documentary video is a collection of vintage screen bloopers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ronald Reagan: An American President

Synopsis: Learn about Ronald Reagan's presidency with this official U.S. White House-authorized biography including some childhood information and acting history. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Stand-Up Reagan

Synopsis: This program takes a look at the warm and humorous side of President Reagan through funny anecdotes and stories about him engaged in jokes or mischief. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

The Modern Presidency

Synopsis: Four presidents discuss the difficulty and intricacies of governing the United States. Features discussion about Watergate, when Ford pardoned Nixon, the Iran hostage situation and American troops coming under attack in Lebanon. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Ronnie Dearest: The Lost Episodes

Reagan Years: In Pursuit of the American Dream

Johnny Legend Presents: Commercial Mania - Special Edition

Synopsis: This documentary video shows commercials from the 50's and 60's. Directed at camp lovers. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Rockin' Ronnie

Synopsis: Maybe you had to have lived through the length and breadth of the Reagan administration to get full comic value out of Rockin' Ronnie. But even those of you who hibernated between 1980 and 1988 (or were living on another planet) will appreciate the effort that went into Rockin' Ronnie, a 45-minute Read More

Esquire Success: Persuasive Speaking

Seeing Red

Actors: Bill Bailey, Dorothy Healey, Pete Seeger

Synopsis: About 400 known and unknown American communists were interviewed during this five-year documentary project, and the results culled down to an intriguing 100 minutes of screen time. As secretaries, factory workers, farmers, and intellectuals discuss the past, their insights provide both humor and Read More

Hollywood Outtakes and Rare Footage

Synopsis: Rather than a compilation of a series of hilarious bloopers, plus scenes of current stars never-before shown to the public, this collection of film clips focuses on a Hollywood of long ago. Stars from Warner Bros. in the 1930s and '40s are shown in out-takes that mainly illustrate their short Read More

Celebrity Commercials

Synopsis: This entertaining "commercial" video gives us over fifty celebrities pushing their favorite, wild product. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hollywood Bloopers

Synopsis: It's nice to know that some of the greatest of the movie stars, while doing some of the most famous and best of Hollywood movies, have feet of clay like the rest of us. This set of outtakes lets us see the human side of celebrities like Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Kirk Douglas, Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney Read More

Star Bloopers

Jimmy Carter: Peanuts to the Presidency

Synopsis: This documentary chronicles the political career of Jimmy Carter through the use of television news footage. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hollywood on Trial

Actors: John Huston, Edward Dmytryk, Albert Maltz, Ring Lardner, Jr., Lester Cole, Dalton Trumbo, John Howard Lawson, Joseph McCarthy

Synopsis: Combining familiar newsreel footage with freshly shot material, David Helpern's Hollywood on Trial is a documentary concerning the "communist witch-hunt" era. In the years following World War II, several ambitious Washington politicos were anxious to dissipate the last traces of Roosevelt's New Read More

Patton: Old Blood and Guts

Synopsis: Patton: Old Blood and Guts profiles the life and career of General George Smith Patton Jr., one of the most important military figures of the 20th century. From his childhood dreams of glory to his education at West Point to his service in Mexico in 1917 and dramatic victories during World War II Read More

Freedom's Finest Hour

Synopsis: A documentary drama on the American Revolution and the founding of the nation, with Jimmie Rodgers' music. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Death Valley Days: The Battle of San Francisco Bay

Death Valley Days: No Gun Behind His Badge

Famous Generals: Ike & Patton

The Killers

Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes, Ronald Reagan, Clu Gulager

Synopsis: Don Siegel directed this intensely pessimistic re-make of Robert Siodmak's 1946 film noir masterpiece The Killers, based upon a story by Ernest Hemingway. As the story opens two professional looking men in business suits -- Charlie (Lee Marvin) and Lee (Clu Gulager) -- push their way into a school Read More

The Truth About Communism

Synopsis: This documentary series covers the history of the communist part in the Soviet Union from Lenin to Krushchev. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Who Killed Julie Greer?

The Young Doctors

Actors: Fredric March, Ben Gazzara, Dick Clark, Ina Balin, Eddie Albert

Synopsis: This slick hospital soap opera features Ben Gazzara as Dr. David Coleman, a young physician hired into the pathology department at a big hospital. The aging head of the department, Dr. Joseph Pearson (Fredric March), is insulted and treats the new hire as a rival. They battle over many medical Read More

Swinging Singing Years

The Swingin' Singin' Years

Synopsis: Jo Stafford, Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, Charlie Barnet and Freddie Slack are among the performers featured in this collection. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Hellcats of the Navy

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Davis, Arthur Franz, Robert Arthur, William Leslie

Synopsis: Future "first couple" Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis made their only joint film appearance in Hellcats of the Navy. Ronnie plays Casey Abbott, commander of a WW2 submarine, while Nancy portrays navy nurse Helen Blair, Abbott's off-and-on girlfriend. During a delicate mission in which his sub is Read More

Judy Garland: General Electric Theatre Special

General Electric Theater: Season 04

General Electric Theater: Let it Rain

Jungle Trap

Synopsis: Former President Ronald Reagan plays a vindictive big game hunter who takes matters into his own hands when a judge who sentenced his brother to death visits his neck of the woods -- or rather, his part of the jungle. Reagan then makes like a vigilante, bent on retribution for his brother's Read More

Prisoner of War

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Dewey Martin, Steve Forrest, Oscar Homolka, Robert Horton

Synopsis: The horrors suffered by American prisoners of war at the hands of the North Koreans during the Korean war provide the basis of this drama. Allegedly based on the true stories of those who survived the tortures, it centers on an intelligence officer (Ronald Reagan) who is sent into a POW camp to Read More

General Electric Theater: I'm a Fool

Synopsis: One of the most famous of the pre-East of Eden TV appearances by the immortal James Dean, this 30-minute adaptation of Sherwood Anderson's short story "I'm a Fool" originally aired live as the November 14, 1954 episode of the CBS anthology General Electric Theater. Narrated by Eddie Albert, this Read More

General Electric Theater: Season 03

Cattle Queen of Montana

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Ronald Reagan, Gene Evans, Lance Fuller, Anthony Caruso, Jack Elam

Synopsis: Filmed on location at Montana's Glacier National Park, Cattle Queen of Montana makes excellent use of the diverse talents of Barbara Stanwyck and Ronald Reagan. Stanwyck is cast as Sierra Nevada Jones, who hopes to stake her claim in the cattle business despite opposition from hostile land barons. Read More

Tennessee's Partner

Actors: John Payne, Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Coleen Gray, Anthony Caruso

Synopsis: Another winning collaboration between producer Benedict Bogeaus and director Allan Dwan, Tennessee's Partner is the third film version of the same-named Bret Harte story. The plotline is motivated by the curious friendship between slick gambler Tennessee (John Payne) and gunslinging Cowpoke Read More

Law and Order

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Dorothy Malone, Preston S. Foster, Alex Nicol, Ruth Hampton

Synopsis: The first film version of W.R. Burnett's novel Saint Johnson was filmed as Law and Order in 1932. Essentially an all-names-changed retelling of the Wyatt Earp legend, the film scored on its humanity and restraint. The 1953 remake eschewed the shadings and subtleties of the original in favor of a Read More

Tropic Zone

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Noah Beery, Jr., Grant Withers

Synopsis: It's always fun to watch Ronald Reagan play a slightly disreputable type, and Tropic Zone is no exception. Reagan stars as Dan McCloud, a self-styled "banana expert" who is hiding out in a mythical South American country for obscure political reasons. Motivated by greed, McCloud comes to the aid Read More

She's Working Her Way Through College

Actors: Virginia Mayo, Ronald Reagan, Gene Nelson, Don DeFore, Phyllis Thaxter

Synopsis: She's Working Her Way Through College is a completely depoliticized remake of the liberal-minded comedy The Male Animal (1942). Virginia Mayo plays an exotic dancer, Angela Gardner, who decides to improve her mind; she enrolls in a college where Professor John Palmer (Ronald Reagan) teaches Read More

The Winning Team

Actors: Doris Day, Ronald Reagan, Frank Lovejoy, Eve Miller, James Millican

Synopsis: Ronald Reagan delivers one of his best screen performances as baseball great Grover Cleveland Alexander in The Winning Team. The title refers to the mutually supportive relationship between Alexander and his loving wife Aimee (top-billed Doris Day); with this in mind, is it any surprise that the Read More

Cavalry Charge

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Bill Williams, Bruce Bennett, Noah Beery, Jr., Peter Hansen

Synopsis: Paramount's immensely successful Pine-Thomas production unit once more struck box-office gold with The Last Outpost. Ronald Reagan stars as devil-may-care Confederate officer Vance Britton, who leads a band of guerillas on a series of sabotage raids. The Northern Army dispatches Vance's brother Read More

Hong Kong

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Rhonda Fleming, Nigel Bruce, Marvin Miller

Synopsis: This thriller is set in Asia and follows the exciting exploits of a villainous soldier of fortune (Ronald Reagan) involved in shady shenanigans with the communists who gets caught red-handed by the authorities. He manages to escape and during his flight encounters a charming Chinese orphan who Read More

Bedtime for Bonzo

Actors: Diana Lynn, Walter Slezak, Lucille Barkley, Jesse White

Synopsis: Forget what you've been led to believe: Bedtime for Bonzo is a most enjoyable film, and Ronald Reagan is not outacted by the chimpanzee. Reagan is cast as psychology professor whose reputation is sullied by the fact that his father was a convict. To prove that environment rather than heredity Read More

Storm Warning

Actors: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran, Hugh Sanders

Synopsis: In Storm Warning, Ginger Rogers stars as a schoolteacher visiting relatives in an unnamed small town. She happens to witness the beating death of a man at the hands of the KKK. Rogers soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by this vigilante group, and that her loutish brother-in-law Steve Cochran Read More

Louisa

Actors: Spring Byington, Ronald Reagan, Charles Coburn, Edmund Gwenn, Ruth Hussey

Synopsis: Never mind the top-billed Ronald W. Reagan; the real stars of Louisa are sprightly seniors Charles Coburn, Spring Byington and Edmund Gwenn. Spring plays Reagan's widowed mother, who is outwardly satisfied with her lot but inwardly lonely. Enter Coburn and Gwenn, who vie for Spring's attentions. Read More

The Girl From Jones Beach

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Virginia Mayo, Eddie Bracken, Dona Drake, Henry Travers

Synopsis: Ronald Reagan plays a George Petty-type magazine illustrator who creates a "perfect girl" from a composite of the features of several models. While relaxing at the beach, Reagan meets a lovely young schoolteacher (Virginia Mayo) who is the living image of his imaginary girl. Sensing a terrific Read More

It's a Great Feeling

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Jack Carson, Bill Goodwin, Irving Bacon

Synopsis: Billy Wilder's future partner I.A.L. Diamond concocted the storyline for this Dennis Morgan/Jack Carson/Doris Day tunefest. Morgan and Carson, Warner Bros.' answer to Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, appear as themselves. Attempting to line up a director for their next picture, the boys find themselves Read More

Night Unto Night

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Broderick Crawford, Rosemary de Camp, Osa Massen

Synopsis: Filmed in 1947, Warner Bros. Night Unto Night wasn't released until 1949. Based on a novel by Philip Wylie, the film stars Ronald Reagan as John, a young scientist suffering from epilepsy (In 1951, Reagan would play another epileptic, baseball star Grover Cleveland Alexander, in The Winning Team). Viveca Lindfors Read More

John Loves Mary

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Jack Carson, Wayne Morris, Edward Arnold

Synopsis: John Lawrence (Ronald Reagan) is a returning GI. Mary McKinley (Patricia Neal in her film debut) is the girl he left behind. But their reunion will have to wait: John has returned with cockney war bride Lilly Herbish (Virginia Field) in tow. It seems that John married Lilly as a favor to get her Read More

The Hasty Heart

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd, Anthony Nicholls, Howard Marion-Crawford

Synopsis: Richard Todd plays an insufferable Scots soldier confined to a World War II military hospital. Ronald Reagan is an all-American patient who befriends the headstrong Scotsman, while Patricia Neal is the compassionate nurse. Gradually the patients grow begrudgingly fond of Todd, and when it is Read More

The Voice of the Turtle

Actors: Ronald Reagan, Eleanor Parker, Eve Arden, Wayne Morris, Kent Smith

Synopsis: John Van Druten's Broadway hit The Voice of the Turtle was purchased by Warner Bros. as a vehicle for...well, in all likelihood, stars Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan were both second choices. Reagan is a returning GI who falls in love with Parker, an ingenuous young actress. Circumstances Read More

That Hagen Girl

Actors: Shirley Temple, Ronald Reagan, Rory Calhoun, Dorothy Peterson, Charles Kemper

Synopsis: A young girl is adopted into a small town family, but instead of finding happiness, she finds her life a living nightmare due to neighbors' constant speculation as to he father's identity. The scuttlebutt is that she is the illegitimate daughter of a prominent lawyer and former resident (Ronald Read More

Stallion Road

Actors: Alexis Smith, Zachary Scott, Peggy Knudsen, Pat Brady

Synopsis: Veterinarian Ronald Reagan contracts anthrax from treating diseased cows in this horsey melodrama from Warner Bros. In fact, Reagan's dutiful Dr. Larry Hanrahan is so busy with the cows that he completely ignores a summons from lady horse breeder Rory Teller (Alexis Smith) to treat her Read More

The Stilwell Road

Synopsis: This World War II documentary, narrated by actor (and future U.S. President) Ronald Reagan, focuses on the China-India-Burma front of the war. The Stillwell Road (named after American General Joseph Stillwell, whose idea it was) was an engineering marvel whose purpose was to truck supplies to the Read More

Fight for the Sky

Synopsis: An aviation documentary on U.S. fighter pilots who flew escort missions over Germany in World War II. An Army-Air Force film. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Air Force Training Films: The Rear Gunner / Snoopers and How to Blast Them

Synopsis: Watch as Burgess Meredith learns the techniques and strategies associated with the job of tail gunner from Ronald Reagan, Tom Neal and Dane Clark, followed by a flying patrol training for pilots. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

We Take New Guinea

Synopsis: Narrated by Ronald Reagan, the documentary We Take New Guinea offers footage of American troops capturing key islands during World War II that led ultimately to the successful invasion of New Guinea. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide Read More

Wings for This Man

The Rear Gunner