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Ronald Reagan, John Paul II and the Dramatic End to the Cold War. The Divine Plan dives deep into the pivotal bond between Pope John Paul II and President Ronald Reagan. Just six weeks apart in the spring of 1981, the pope and the president took bullets from would-be assassins. Surviving strikingly similar near-death experiences, they confided to each other a shared conviction: that God had spared their lives for the purpose of defeating communism.
This film takes viewers behind the scenes of an unlikely partnership that changed the world, asking daring questions… Was a pontiff and politician’s work of overthrowing communism the result of inexorable political and economic forces, or could it have been part of what Reagan called, “The Divine Plan”? Told in part as a graphic thriller this highly-stylized motion picture film pushes beyond the bounds of conventional documentary-making into a world where one’s faith in God might determine the real facts. DVD documentary, 80 minutes.