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The Storm (1920-1933)

Season 1 Episode 4 | 1hr 56m 40s

Franklin Roosevelt runs for vice president in 1920 and seems assured of a still brighter future until polio devastates him. He spends seven years struggling without success to walk again, while Eleanor builds her own personal and political life of. FDR returns to politics in 1928 and acts with such vigor during the first years of the Great Depression that the Democrats nominate him for president.

Aired: 09/16/14
Funding is provided by Bank of America; CPB; Mr. Jack C. Taylor; The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The NEH; Rosalind P. Walter; Members of The Better Angels Society, including Jessica & John Fullerton; The Pfeil Foundation: David, Mindy, Robert & Daniel Pfeil; Joan Wellhouse Newton; Bonnie & Tom McCloskey; and The Golklin Family.
Extras
Watch the introduction to The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.