The longtime broadcast journalist Dan Rather may have stepped down in 2005 as lead anchor of the CBS Evening News—a position he held for 24 years—but he has hardly gone away. Born in Texas in 1931, the nonagenarian has found a new, and much younger, audience on social media, where his witty barbs attacking right-wing nonsense have earned legions of new fans. There’s much more to him than just the scandal that sent him packing or the more recent fans he has developed, however, and in the new documentary Rather, from veteran producer/director Frank Marshall (The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart), we get the full picture.
Working with a vast archive spanning Rather’s lengthy career, which so often dovetailed with major historical events (JFK’s assassination, the Vietnam War, the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, Watergate, 1980s Afghanistan, the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal, and so much more), Marshall does his best to reveal the man behind the myth. That doesn’t quite stop him from veering into hagiography, but there are at least some warts on display. Overall, unless one hates Rather for a misplaced belief in his liberal bias, the film feels relatively evenhanded.
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