{alltv} New Reagan docs airing next week

 

Ronald and Nancy Reagan weren't on TV this much back when he was the president of the United States and she was the first lady!

Coming up on Sunday and Monday, it's wall-to-wall Reagan-vision, Super Bowl be damned.

First up is the new documentary Nancy Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, which airs Sunday on most PBS affiliates (remember, we say "most" because individual PBS stations march to their own drummers, so check local listings). While Nancy occasionally was criticized for being a traditional first lady in an era focused on women's rights, historians now consider her to be one of the most influential first ladies in modern times.

Then Monday on HBO Canada, Ronald Reagan is the subject of a new feature-length biographical documentary titled Reagan, directed by Eugene Jarecki and an official selection of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. The doc also examines the phenomenon of modern-day acolytes often missing or dismissing the ample evidence that Reagan was as much a pragmatist as a conservative.

And just to add a little confusion, this coming Monday and again next Monday (Feb. 14), most PBS affiliates will re-broadcast the American Experience two-part doc on Ronald Reagan, also titled Reagan, which first aired in 1998.

The airing of all these docs is timed to coincide with what would have been Ronald Reagan's 100th birthday on Sunday. He died in 2004.

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