Franklin D. Roosevelt
Birthday: 1882-01-30
Place of Birth: Hyde Park, New York, USA
Biography: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. His initial two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II.
Movies
Korea, A Hundred Years of War
A contemporary history of Korea(s) from a unique point of view that embraces the inner history of bo...
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Laboratory Greece
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the curr...
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The Untold History Of The United States
Oliver Stone charts the history of the United States from the Second World War to the present....
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Laissez-faire
A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...
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Blood and Oil
The notion that oil motivates America's military engagements in the Middle East is often disregarded...
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Trifles of Importance
Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant thing...
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The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress
The New Air Force One: Flying Fortress follows the new presidential aircraft's creation, diving into...
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Parsifal: The Hidden Causes of World War II
Based on Worldwide Defeat by Salvador Borrego, it exposes the forbidden side of history and reveals ...
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Life Begins Tomorrow
Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie ...
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A Greater Society
It’s the 2014 midterms and residents of a South Florida retirement community feel the weight of demo...
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Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...
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The Emperor's New Clothes
An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur R...
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Curtiz
Hollywood, 1942. The US government pressures Hungarian-born film director Michael Curtiz, who is abo...
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Air Force One: The Planes and the Presidents
Several important historical events occurred on the planes with call sign Air Force One. These event...
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The New Deal: The Man Who Changed America
Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevel...
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LOLA
Sussex, England, 1938. Shortly before the outbreak of World War II, Thomasina and Martha Hanbury, tw...
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Within These Walls: A Tour of the White House
A special that takes a look inside the White House....
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Til Vesterheimen
The film depicts Olav Vs and Märtha from Norway's trip to the USA in 1939...
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The Kennedy Dynasty
The story of a powerful political and economic dynasty, fundamental to understanding the turbulent d...
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Going Hollywood: The '30s
Robert Preston hosts this documentary that shows what people of the 1930s were watching as they were...
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Mount Rushmore: The Shrine
The story behind the creation of Mount Rushmore National Memorial....
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The Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles...
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The Fog of War
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
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Fala: The President's Dog
Fala was the famous Scotch Terrier owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his last two presidenti...
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Stalin: Man of Steel
Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted por...
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The Roaring Twenties
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally...
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The World at War
Documentary examining the events which led up to the Second World War....
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United We Stand
Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American e...
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The Fight For Peace
A documentary about the threat of war breaking out in Europe, focusing on Hitler, Stalin and Mussoli...
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To the Shores of Iwo Jima
Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and th...
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The Bloody Hundredth
Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...
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A Web of War
The stories of the battles that brought together a Polish cavalry officer, a Canadian captain, and a...
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Know Your Ally: Britain
Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Hust...
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The Guns of August
Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the ...
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The Great Raid
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: pu...
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Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on ...
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Gold Diggers: FDR'S New Deal... Broadway Bound
Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals....
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The Mistake that Killed Hitler
In April 1945, as Stalin's Red Army approach from the East and the Western Allied forces quickly app...
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Crimean Conference
The Crimean (Yalta) conference of the leaders of the three powers - allies in the Anti-Hitler coalit...
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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the Ame...
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Iran: The Hundred Year War
What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?...
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Backstage at the White House
This unique glimpse into the private lives of our Presidents and their families showcases some of th...
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Inside the White House
Featuring behind-the-scenes footage and unprecedented access to its hallowed halls, this program fro...
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All the Presidents' Wives
A look at the women who has served as First Ladies of the United States....
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Show-Business at War
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort....
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Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American ent...
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Scouts to the Rescue
Filmed in the Sierra Nevada mountains near Sonora, California, this Universal serial is Universal's ...
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The Valley of the Tennessee
U.S. Goverment film about the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s and 1940s....
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The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Winston Churchill, one of the most revered men of the twentieth century. Adolf Hitler, one of the mo...
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Ode to Victory
This short uses a musical suite to show Americans what they are fighting for in World War II. As an ...
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Storm Front in Mayo
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day c...
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Winston Churchill: A Giant in the Century
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
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Okay for Sound
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition...
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1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
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Propaganda: Engineering Consent
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...
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Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Amer...
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Buck Privates
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop ...
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Edward & George: Two Brothers, One Throne
The complex relationship between royal brothers Edward VIII and George VI, who were both at the hear...
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White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully las...
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41
An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st president o...
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FDR
Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who st...
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East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
The history of the East Lake Meadows public housing project in Atlanta and the people who lived ther...
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Tuesday in November
A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War...
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Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes ...
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1932 Lake Placid Olympics
IOC has restored 18 minutes from the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics. Ten of those minutes are silent sequ...
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Reagan
Based on the story of Americas enigmatic career of one of the revered architects of the modern world...
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Where's My Roy Cohn?
Roy Cohn personified the dark arts of American politics, turning empty vessels into dangerous demago...
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The Soul of America
Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers...
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Genocide
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism...
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For Me and My Gal
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI....
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Wild by Law
Tells about the Wilderness Act of 1964 and the three men responsible for its passage: forester/philo...
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Filmmakers for the Prosecution
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collec...
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Sirius
Dr. Steven Greer—an Emergency room doctor turned UFO researcher—discloses top secret information abo...
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JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, ...
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The Astors: High Society
The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet thei...
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Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Super...
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Pornography
Everything you always wanted to know about pornography (but were afraid to ask)....
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The United States in the 20th Century 1932-1940
Presents the history of the U S from the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt to the eve of World Wa...
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First Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Inauguration ceremony for Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 4th 1933....
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The Extraordinary Seaman
Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain....
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Nuremberg: The 60th Anniversary Director's Cut
Using over an hour of new, never-before-seen material, combined with footage from 1946, producers Da...
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
For 50 years radio dominated the airwaves and the American consciousness as the first “mass medium.”...
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What We Are Fighting For
An air raid warden demonstrates safety measures, while a refugee from Occupied Europe reveals why sh...
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USS Indianapolis: The Final Chapter
The discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreck site, 18,000 feet below the Philippine Sea, is detailed....
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Remember Pearl Harbor
Narrated by veteran Hollywood actor Tom Selleck, REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR chronicles the personal stori...
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Pearl Harbor: Legacy of Attack
Documentary narrated by Tom Brokaw. National Geographic delves into the untold storylines and unreso...
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The Civilian Serves
A silent short film promoting the United States Citizens Defense Corps, a group in which civilians s...
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The Real Charlie Chaplin
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he g...
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The American Führer
The story of the fascist conman Fritz Julius Kuhn is as unknown as it is terrifying: Kuhn is a Germa...
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X-Day: The Invasion of Japan
By spring of 1942, Japan controlled the western Pacific, the Philippines, and large parts of Indochi...
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Speaking from America
How long-distance telephone calls are made, from the UK to the USA. We see operators, miles of wires...
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