
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered this country through two monumental crises: the Depression and World War II. FDR served as president longer than any other, and his legacy still shapes our understanding of the role of government and the presidency. A film by award winning filmmaker David Grubin. This is the second of four parts.

David McCullough
Narrator

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)

Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill


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October 12, 1994
4h 30m
7.2
David Grubin
David Grubin
7

Self (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman
Self (archive footage)
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