Myron Clemons A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Lidia Draper Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Dustin Thomas I am a model and manager at Hollister in Huntington Beach and usually spend my days surfing the waves and staring into the deep blue sea and vastness of the ocean. It makes me really think. Are we like, the only people out there? Like if the President's book of secrets is with the President than is it even really a secret? And who else would know about this secret if it was meant to be secretive? This show is like so deep. Like bro my mind is blown, like WOAH you know bro??Get your best bros from the Squash and Water Polo teams together for a bonfire under the moonlight on the beach and watch this show bro!

jhradcliffe-127-370665 Instead of presenting actual facts of a "book of secrets" they present ideas of what could go in such a book. They drag you through hours of conspiracy theories and random imagery to make this story seem legitimate. This is pure history channel filler and a compilation that could have been made by an amateur. They bring some politicians into the show who say "we can't talk about this" which is constantly mentioned in the show by numerous people. I wish that the history channel would label these shows appropriately at the beginning so you know that is is purely speculation. If anyone has ever watched a history channel show about Atlantis and felt the rage at the end, the same rage will certainly find its way into your heart for this one.

Clay Loomis I've been a big fan of historical documentaries for over 25 years. The History Channel, in particular, is a favorite place to find these. The President's Book of Secrets fell right in line with that. It is a very good special about some of the most inner workings of government in areas such as national security at the cyber level.The main focus, of course, is what the President knows, that we don't. Despite my familiarity with all these history shows, and a long time passion of staying current with global news, this special still had some information that I was not aware of. The show has comments by many government insiders and knowledgeable media people (Dan Rather, for instance), and their perspective is always of interest to me.My one complaint is that they felt the need to inject fake "drama" into the show. Going in, I knew that we were not going to find out if there was a "book of secrets", but they saw the need to keep coming back to the dour narrator saying "...or perhaps it's in the President's Book of Secrets". I just hate this 21st century need to inject phony drama into simply EVERY show on TV. Some entire networks are dedicated to this. The TLC channel used to actually be about learning things. After all, the TLC used to stand for The Learning Channel. Now, TLC is just a compilation of human freak shows. The whole network is unwatchable.The History Channel was the last to fall into this trap, but now they have unwatchable shows too, like "Hicks With Axes Cussing At Each Other", and "Idiots Crawling Through Junk Piles". These things are neither historic, nor educational. It's a sad state of affairs. And even though some informative shows, like The President's Book of Secrets, still show up on the History Channel, artificial "drama" makes its ugly presence known there too. So now, there is not a single channel on basic cable dedicated to education, and the dumbing down of America continues.Overall, a very informative show about secrets and Presidents.

sddavis63 This seems a bit much to establish the shocking fact that Presidents of the United States know a lot of stuff that your average joe on the street doesn't know. But that's essentially what this does. It talks about secrets we already know about (things like health issues with former presidents, for example - Woodrow Wilson's stroke, JFK's Addisons Disease and dependence on pain killers), it talks about things we don't know but that we know the President must know (like the fact that the United States must have secret weapons), it talks about the fact that there are probably things that even the President doesn't know (because, as Newt Gingrich points out, there's just too much to know, and someone has to decide what goes to the President and what doesn't), and there are vague conspiracy-like hints through the whole thing. It's a little bit heavy on 9/11, and although it bills itself as a journey inside White House history, it's most definitely biased toward recent history. There's lots on Obama and Bush, Jr., with preceding presidents from that point back getting progressively less attention. The earliest president mentioned as I recall was Woodrow Wilson, except for a perfunctory line at the end noting that the presidency exists in an unbroken chain dating back to George Washington. This doesn't reveal any particularly surprising information, and as a result it's biggest weakness as a documentary is that - really - you don't learn anything from it that you shouldn't already know if you're at all interested. The whole concept is developed around the idea that there might be (stress the might) a special "book of secrets" that every new president gets access to, and it regards with suspicion right from the start the secret, personal letter that every outgoing president leaves for every incoming president.No doubt that presidents and former presidents form a sort of special club, if you will. Equally there's no doubt that there's knowledge within that special club that those not in the club don't have. This documentary established that and then - quite frankly - left me yawning and asking "so what?" (4/10)