Episodes
Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.
Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Examine the early lives of Theodore Roosevelt and his younger cousin, Franklin.
Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Extras
The film weaves the stories of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
The film weaves the stories of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
In the the summer of 1921 Franklin Delano Roosevelt contracts polio.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was adored by his parents but had a very lonely childhood.
Eleanor and FDR look on in horror as the Nazi Party sweeps across Germany.
Theodore Roosevelt attends Harvard and meets Alice Lee. They marry in 1880.
Theodore Roosevelt settles the Russo-Japanese War and wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
Eleanor clashed at times with her mother-in-law, Sara Delano Roosevelt.
President McKinley is assassinated and Theodore Roosevelt becomes president.