Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival, the film chronicles the rise and fall and rise again of the iconic reporter and anchor.
traces its hero’s journey from Texas radio to early television breaks covering Hurricane Carla and the Kennedy assassination to his time as a dogged Vietnam and White House reporter to his preeminence at the CBS anchor desk and onRather himself is a consistent presence across the documentary, which captures him going to and from work in a rainstorm and playing around on his computer. He sat for what looks to be several interviews.
Or sometimes even less than that. When the documentary invariably covers less adulatory chapters in his career — an ill-fated on-air exchange with George H.W. Bush or the documents scandal that ended his time at CBS — he’s either silent or fuzzy in his reflections. Longtime CBS News veteran Susan Zirinsky, one of many Rather colleagues, is the source Marshall turns to whenever Rather did something wrong. Zirinsky is candid about the missteps that torpedoed the notorious story on George W. Bush’s National Guard service, but she’s candid in the softest way possible, one of several people who want to underline the irony that the ill-fated story was basically right, even if a key document was fraudulent.
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