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Descriptive Audio: Get Action (1858-1901)

Season 1 Episode 15 | 1hr 54m 57s

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.

Aired: 09/13/14
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
Theodore’s presidency and FDR and Eleanor’s courtship and marriage.
FDR battles with polio and responds to the Great Depression.
Trace the effects of WWI on the lives of the Roosevelts.
Survey FDR’s leadership during WWII, while Eleanor tends to wounded servicemen.
Examine FDR’s New Deal and Eleanor’s growing political activism.
Examine Eleanor’s role as civil rights and U.N champion after FDR’s death.
The film weaves the stories of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
FDR's New Deal brought great relief to the American People.
Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt all overcame adversity to achieve greatness.
FDR's New York 1944 Campaign took him to Ebbets Field in the rain.