This Is Elvis is a 1981 documentary film directed by Andrew Solt and Malcolm Leo. This is a strange film - sometimes brilliant and sometimes terrible - but fascinating at times and chock full of archive and video from the Presley estate. It's a mixture of real documentary and fake documentary with some dramatic licence taken at times. The film presents some parts of Presley's life with actors playing him at different ages but these sequences are mercifully kept to a minimum and for the most part you have a vast amount of footage of the real thing. It attempts to tell the whole story of his life in words, images and songs. There is some narration by Ral Donner pretending .  Read the complete review