The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Season 1 · 7 Episodes

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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Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)

David McCullough
Self - Historian

Meryl Streep
Eleanor Roosevelt (voice)

Edward Herrmann
Franklin Roosevelt (voice)

Paul Giamatti
Theodore Roosevelt (voice)

Theodore Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)

Doris Kearns Goodwin
Self - Historian

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)

John Lithgow
James Roosevelt (voice)

Eleanor Roosevelt
Self (archive footage)
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