Overview

The new documentary event will provide an epic portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, unpacking how his own fight with polio prepared him for the challenges of leading the United States through the Great Depression and World War II. Based upon Goodwin's New York Times bestseller, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, viewers will experience a most harrowing, yet heroic time in history when through grit, commitment and shared sacrifice FDR was the right man at the right time to lead the U.S. and the allied nations, projecting confidence in himself and America.

Created by Malcolm Venville

Network

• History

Seasons & Episodes

Cast

• 

  Christian McKay

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  3 eps

• Alice Bounsall

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  3 eps

• 

  Rufus Jones

  Theodore Roosevelt

  3 eps

• Adrian Galley

  3 eps

• 

  Jazzara Jaslyn

Themes

• world war ii
• franklin delano roosevelt
• adolf hitler

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