Amazon: The Reagan Show: Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan. With Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev, George Bush. Made up entirely of archival news and White House footage, this documentary captures the pageantry, absurdity, and mastery of the made-for-TV politics of Ronald Reagan, The Reagan Show - Roger Ebert. CNN Films' 'The Reagan Show' - CNN Video. Brian Regan: The Official Site, Review: In ‘The Reagan Show,’ No Grenada but Lots of the, The Reagan Show is an all-archival documentary about the original performer-president’s role of a lifetime. Teasing apart the spectacle at the heart of finger-on-the-button global diplomacy, the film follows Ronald Reagan's rivalry with charismatic Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, tracing how the Communicator-in-Chief uses his public relations chops to overcome Soviet mistrust, the. For anyone (like this critic) who came of age in the 1980s, “The Reagan Show” will be like a quick trip through a time warp. It all seems so long ago, and yet it also feels as if it were happening right now. The television journalists with their trench coats and stentorian inflections. The..