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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The Rising Road (Season 1, Episode 5)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

FDR's pre-WWII presidency. The New Deal renews America. FDR's unprecedented popularity, the conservative opposition and Huey Long's populism. FDR warns isolationists of Hitler. Eleanor's platonic friendship with Lorena Hickok.
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Sep 18, 2014 (United States)

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35 cast members
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Peter Coyote
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William Leuchtenburg
Self - Historian (as William E. Leuchtenburg) Self - Historian (as William E. Leuchtenburg)   See fewer
George F. Will
Self - Writer Self - Writer   See fewer
Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Jonathan Alter
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H.W. Brands
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Geoffrey C. Ward
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Blanche Wiesen Cook
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Dorothy Height
Self - Civil Rights Activist Self - Civil Rights Activist   See fewer
Marion Dunn
Self - Warm Springs Self - Warm Springs   See fewer
Meryl Streep
Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)   See fewer
Patricia Clarkson
Daisy Suckley (voice) Daisy Suckley (voice)   See fewer
Edward Herrmann
Franklin Roosevelt (voice) Franklin Roosevelt (voice)   See fewer
Mary McLeod Bethune
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Kevin Conway
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Paul Giamatti
Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt   See fewer
Lorena Hickock
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Adolf Hitler
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Harry Hopkins
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King George VI
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John Lithgow
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Carl Lumbly
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Amy Madigan
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Carolyn McCormick
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J.P. Morgan
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Benito Mussolini
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Frances Perkins
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Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
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Pamela Reed
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Eleanor Roosevelt
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Margaret Suckley
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Billy Bob Thornton
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