Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

FDR [videorecording] / written and produced by David Grubin ; a David Grubin Productions, Inc. film for American experience.

Publisher, Date:

[Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Home Video ; Hollywood, CA. : Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment, c2008.

Description:

2 videodiscs (257 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Biography of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, from his childhood as the coddled child of wealthy parents, through his marriage to distant cousin Eleanor Roosevelt and devastating illness with polio, to his service as President of the United States for unprecedented four terms during the crises of the Great Depression and World War II.

Series:

Presidents.

Presidents collection.

Subjects:

Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.

Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962.

Presidents -- United States -- Biography.

Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

United States -- History -- 1933-1945.

United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945.

Other Author:

Grubin, David.

McCullough, David G.

Ward, Geoffrey C. Before the trumpet.

Ward, Geoffrey C. First class temperament.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No ordinary time.

David Grubin Productions.

WGBH Educational Foundation.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

PBS Home Video.

Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

Other Title:

American experience (Television program)

Notes:

Ep. 1-2 based on Before the trumpet and A first class temperament, by Geoffrey C. Ward; ep. 4 based on No ordinary time : Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in WWII, by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Originally broadcast in 1994 on American experience.

DVD special feature : Teacher's guide (PDF).

MPAA Rating: Not rated; Canadian rating PG.

Editor, Susan Fanshel ; music, Michael Bacon ; cinematography, Michael B. McCollough, Roger Phenix.

Narrator, David McCullough.

DVD; Region 1; NTSC; Full screen; Stereo.

English; Closed-captioned.

Contents:

Disc 1. pt. 1-pt. 2 -- disc 2. pt. 3-4.

Web Site:

Web Link Connect to material related to this title online

ISBN:

1415738475

9781415738474

Publisher Number:

AMEX600

Other Number:

244251999

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

349106

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD BIO Roosevel

Medium:

[videorecording]