The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

2014
★★★★☆ 7.7/10
📺 1 Season
🎬 7 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
DocumentaryHistoryWar & Politics
Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962.

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Seasons

Season 1
2014 • 7 Episodes
A frail, asthmatic young Theodore Roosevelt transforms himself into a champion of the strenuous life, loses one great love and finds another, leads men into battle and then rises like a rocket to become the youngest president in American history at 42. Meanwhile, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, brought up as the pampered only child of adoring parents, follows his older cousin’s career with fascination.

Crew

Director
Ken Burns
Writer
Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns

Network

PBS

Production

Florentine Films, WETA

Keywords

usa presidenthistorical figurefranklin delano rooseveltminiserieshistoricalusa historyusa politicsdocumentary