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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History(2014)

  • TV show
  • September 14, 2014
  • 13
  • 1 season
  • 7 episodes
  • Ended
  • Last aired: September 20, 2014
  • Documentary, History, War & Politics
7.7TMDB · 38 votes

Created by: Ken Burns

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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Cast

  • Peter Coyote

    Peter Coyote

    Narrator (voice)

  • David McCullough

    David McCullough

    Self - Historian

  • Meryl Streep

    Meryl Streep

    Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)

  • Edward Herrmann

    Edward Herrmann

    Franklin Roosevelt (voice)

  • Paul Giamatti

    Paul Giamatti

    Theodore Roosevelt (voice)

  • Theodore Roosevelt

    Theodore Roosevelt

    Self (archive footage)

  • Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Doris Kearns Goodwin

    Self - Historian

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Self (archive footage)

  • John Lithgow

    John Lithgow

    James Roosevelt (voice)

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

    Eleanor Roosevelt

    Self (archive footage)

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