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In the Face of Evil: Reagan's War in Word and Deed

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Last year, my Russian friend Nikita had tears in his eyes when he begged me and others to watch this video. I was so startled by his reaction that I did so. As I watched it, I remembered an incident of nearly 25 years ago. The night Reagan was first elected President. I had been swimming in my health club pool when I heard the news and was so horrified that I momentarily thought to drown myself. Instead, I prayed desperately that God would rid my country of this 'fool'. 25 years later, I am so glad God didn't listen. Because of Reagan, I got to see Hungarians and Poles dancing in their liberated countries, I saw ecstatic Germans smashing the Berlin Wall as it fell. And I saw a spectacle I never thought I would see in my lifetime (or any one else's), the hammer and sickle flag of Communism being lowered for the last time in Red Square. All because of a 'fool' I prayed God would get rid of.

"In the Face of Evil" tells how this all happened. Without hystrionics, without brutal political bias, it relates how Reagan saw what the rest of us didn't - that the 'emperor' of Russia had no clothes of real power. And how Reagan had the courage to act on that vision. I had always thought he was the Great Communicator - now I understand why he is justly labeled the 'Great Liberator'. And why my friend Nikita wept when he watched the tale of how this single man set so many millions free. Please watch it.

In less than two months it will be year since President Reagan left this world in order to touch the face of God and 'meet the Big Fella upstairs." It is a pity that he had no chance to watch this movie. Yet it is a good reminder that his legacy is so well preserved and displayed in this movie.

The movie is somewhat divided in two parts - Words and Deeds. It is a wonderful combination, a genuine harmony that Gipper was always distinguished for. He made the Soviets to sit at the table of negotiations and with Gorbachov he managed to remove the Iron Curtain and then the Berlin Wall.
Which president could address the way he did? Which president could dare talk to Russians when they dropped the KAL AIRPLANE? And which president could force Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan and Nicaragua, not to mention his efforts to liberate the entire eastern European Block?
President Reagan will always remain in the history of mankind and if we spend evenings peacefully and go to bed without looking up in the sky with some fear, that is HIS merit! May His Soul Rest In Peace!
Special appreciation should go to the Leo McWatkins studio and the producer Mr.Tim Watkins who made this wonderful gift for all of us! The movie deserves galaxy of stars!

I purchased In the Face of Evil a few months ago and I have watched it at least four times. Each viewing inspires me as much as the first time. The 20th century's historical background, the succinct and staccato narration, the relevant musical score and the explanation of Reagan's tactical plan to dismantle the Soviet Union are just awesome. The footage of Reagan's eloquent speeches from the 1960s and 1970s are essential to understanding that he had been writing and thinking about his ideas for a long time. The redundant themes about the beast's goal "Control of the state and power as an end unto itself." and "The beast had always hated the same things: religion, a free press, intellectual inquiry and artistic expression. Anything that elevated or empowered the individual." These themes are terse, poignant and blatantly candid. This is an "in your face" type of movie. Congratulations to this DVD's producers for a job well done.

This stellar documentary is more than a hat-tip to the late great President Reagan. It is a reminder to the world that the various brands of modern-day evil (Nazism, Communism, and Islamofacism) all share the same core principles: hatred of freedom, suppression of the individual, and a desire to dominate the world through violence. The point of the movie is this: Negotiating, bargaining, and pleading with evil forces (today that would be Islamofacism) only results in disaster. The only way to co-exist with someone who wakes up in the morning plotting your destruction because it despises your free way of life is to defeat it outright.

The history in this film is eye-opening. To see how one administration after another (Republican and Democrat alike) pandered to the Commies throughout the 20th Century as they grew stronger and we grew weaker made me realize that Republicans have historically been just as weak-kneed as modern-day Democrats; which is why Ronald Reagan, who stood up in the face of a great evil (despite constant criticism from European and U.S. media elites) was the best President since Abraham Lincoln.

Do you sleep well at night knowing that your children won't be forced to grow up in a totalitarian state? Actually, that probably doesn't even cross your mind these days. Thank God for that. And don't forget to thank him for Ronald Reagan.

In the Face of Evil is a powerful epic documentary that chronicles the failure of appeasement, and the triumph of political and spiritual freedom. Containment was not a realistic long term strategy for dealing with evil that desires to control the freedom of ideas and people. Ronald Wilson Reagan's struggle and defeat of communism shows how he became a great liberator for those who were imprisoned by the forces of darkness.

The strategy and message is so simple, yet so brilliant. Even now we have those false prophets who say they seek peace, but turn their backs on evil forces. The film is so excellent because it displays the cycle of appeasement. In The Face of Evil successfully shows how Reagan elevated the spiritual and defensive debate against the evil systems. He was portrayed as a "war-monger," and "cowboy" but he wielded the sword of peace. Jesus reminds us to beware of those who are wolves dressed in sheep's clothing, and that we can judge the peacemaker by his fruit. Nobody left a greater legacy of peace than the 40th President.

The film captures the strength and firmness of Reagan. It also captures the strength and moral clarity of his ideas. Perhaps most importantly the film captures the weakness and danger of those who wished to chart a different course.

An accurate, dispassionate take on perhaps the most important topic of the 20th and 21st centuries - the battle between liberty and totalitarianism, and specifically Ronald Reagan's personal war against Soviet communism.

This work documents President Reagan's efforts, covert and overt, to destabilize the Soviet Union and free the billions in slavery to this evil empire. It begins by detailing the rise of 'the beast' and continues with the ineffective efforts of previous administrations to respond. Notes that this is handled is a completely honest and no-partisan way; President Nixon's secretive, suspicious nature and President Ford's ineptitude and self-denial are both presented honestly, as are the failings of Democrat administrations.

History is only now beginning to appreciate President Reagan's accomplishments but for those of us who actually remember the pessimistic depths to which America had fallen by the late '70s, it's almost inconceivable that anyone was able to not only revitalize American economic prosperity, military might and most importantly, pride and spirit, but at the same time land fatal blow after fatal blow to the Soviet Union. President Reagan freed billions of slaves, at a time virtually no one else believed it possible.

I hope this is but one of the first accurate portrayals of President Reagan's accomplishments.

Highly recommended!

Ronald Reagan surprised his enemies when he actually did what he said he was going to do, a hard-to-find feature on a politician.

This movie masterfully chronicles the great accomplishments of a great president. I would've liked to see it on the big screen. This is a treasure in my DVD library.

The DVD features full-length uncut speech from the 60's where Reagan explained back then what he actually accomplished 20 years later. A man of principle, with a backbone of steel. An example for generations to come. As a side note, take a look at what Reagan had to say on that speech about social security... very interesting.

I feel it's a shame I had to buy a copy of this movie as opposed to seeing it in a theater. I don't believe there was even one theater in the area where I reside that showed "In the Face of Evil". This being in my opinion a rather tragic statement when a film like Michael Moore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" played to overflow crowds and a brilliant documentary like "In the Face Of Evil" went virtually unnoticed. Ronald Reagan will go down in history as one of the truly great and most influential leaders of the twentieth century. This documentary very clearly points out the harsh realities of the Cold War and how Reagan more than virtually any other person so brilliantly helped bring an end to this sad chapter in world history. Where as Moore's "F 9/11" has been proven to be full of pathetic innuendo and miscarriages of truth to fit his own political agenda, "In The Face Of Evil" will someday receive the attention it so rightfully deserves as a well researched and valuable guide illustrating what a truly magnificent leader this nation had with Ronald Reagan as president. I strongly recommend this film to everyone regardless of their political point of view. I further believe this film makes for an excellent tool in helping teachers educate their students about the "Cold War".

Ronald Reagan defended freedom for forty years as this documentary shows. He was not the lucky opportunist who just happened to become president when the Soviet Union was about to fail as so many liberals and most of the media would have us believe. (In any case isn't the media just a subset of the liberals?) Ronald Reagan began his crusade against evil and communism (its worst and most visible manifestation in the second half of the 20th century) when he was president of the Actors Guild in the 1940's. Soon after that his career as an actor failed. One wonders what might have happened if he became the leading man he wanted to be; would the world look as it does today with no monolithic enemy of the world remaining? Communism was for the most part soundly defeated and "thrown on the ash heap of history" as Reagan planned. Most interesting is the cohesive plan the Reagan administration hatched to attack the Soviets on every front and push them over the edge into decline. Secret orders signed, secret agreements made with such foreign leaders as Prince Saad of Saudia Arabia, a massive defense build up planned and implemented. Interviews with some former memebers of the KGB are important in demonstrating that such ideas as the Strategic Defense Initiative soundly ridiculed by most of the Western media were of great concern to the Soviets. In fact Gorbachev went to Rejhavic in 1986 with one main purpose; have Reagan give up on SDI. Reagan ever a man who stubbornly held to his views refused to give in. He closed his briefing book and went home. That one action may have completely sown the fate of the USSR. Frankly this DVD will bring tears to your eyes if you believe in great leaders and their affect on history. Great leaders can represent a branch in the river of time. Without them appearing or somehow springing up out of nowhere as Reagan, Churchill and others have, we would have gone down a different timeline with a world completely different, one much worse for freedom and the average person.

This documentary is particularly moving with a score and narration that perfectly matches the presentation.

I highly recommend this. I also highly recommend watching it with any liberal you know or are friends with.

This documentary is based upon Peter Schweitzer's book, Reagan's War. It is truly a moving account of recent history. It candidly portrays the tyranny of will to power as it arose from concepts forged by Nietsche, Hegel, Marx, and others, and as it took form by Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, and others throughout the 20th century.

The documentary makes it explicitly clear that Ronald Reagan challenged the Neville Chamberlain-like approach that U.S. Presidents from Harry Truman through Jimmy Carter had adopted toward the Sovient Union, the appeasement policy of containment. The movie reminds us, who lived through the Cold War, how close the U.S. came to the brink of nuclear war with the U.S.S.R. many times because none of the leaders dared to face down the foe, including President Kennedy during the "Cuban Missle Crisis." He pulled a backroom deal with Nikita Krushchev sacrificing Turkey to get the Soviet Union out of the U.S. face in Cuba.

President Reagan took on Communinism and Communists when he became President of the Screen Actors Guild and in a major way when he became President of the United States. The story discloses how KGB documents reinforce the enormous significance of President Reagan's actions and decisions during his two terms as President. THough at first mocking him as a "cowboy actor," those in the Kremlin came to respect President Reagan for his fearless posture and his disdain for weakness, for accommodating the enemy, and for making deals. The movie unveils the story of a man whose resolve of purpose, whose determined strategy of "peace through strength," whose unflinching courage to stand up to threats, whose selfless dedication to the preservation and expansion of freedom before self glory, and whose belief that God had spared his life from the assassin's designs to bring reality to his visionary ideals did in fact transform the world that is powerfully and symbolically represented in the destruction of the Berlin Wall. In the Face of Evil is the account of how the Cold War was won without firing a shot and the enormous role that President Reagan filled to secure that victory.

Whatever your political persuasion may be, you ought to acknowledge greatness when you see it. View In the Face of Evil and you will see greatness. Then thank God that he raised up Ronald Reagan and spared his life to slay the Beast of tyranny known as Communism, and then pray for President Bush that he will continue to walk in President Reagan's footsteps and never give aid and comfort to the enemy of freedom.