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- The story of the love affair between FDR and his distant cousin Margaret "Daisy" Suckley, centered around the weekend in 1939 when the King and Queen of the United Kingdom visited upstate New York.
- The stirring true story of Franklin D. Roosevelt's battle with polio in 1921.
- The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, from early youth to his election as President of the United States, as told from Eleanor's point of view.
- After a bout with polio, future president Franklin D. Roosevelt fights to save his political career.
- The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
- In the spring of 1939, Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus embarked on a risky and unlikely mission. Traveling into the heart of Nazi Germany, they rescued 50 Jewish children from Vienna and brought them to the United States.
- Biopic about the final year of FDR's Presidency, and life.
- In the year prior to entering World War II, the still-segregated United States military agreed to train Black pilots for the first time. The Tuskegee Airmen, as they became known, became symbols of courage to the nation, taking on Hitler in Europe, and Jim Crow back home.
- From ancient times, to the present, humans have always loved to do one thing. Party. Mankind's greatest celebrations to life. They're the biggest bashes ever, and you're on the guest list.
- A television version of Dore Schary's one-man play about FDR, with its original star.
- In 1946, former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt took over the Chairpersonship of the UN's Commission on Human Rights. Two-and-a-half years later, the first document declaring human rights for everyone passed the UN General Assembly without a single nation opposed.
- While millions around the globe watched on television, thousands of people stood for hours waiting to catch just a brief glimpse of George H.W. Bush's funeral train and pay their last respects. Led by the George Bush 4141 locomotive, the 13-car train made the 2.5 hour, 70-mile journey from Spring to College Station, Texas, where the former president was laid to rest after a final funeral in Houston. This special train served as a tangible connection between the people and their former president. "Uniting America: The President's Final Journey" will show never-before-seen footage, and go behind the scenes with the Union Pacific employees who were instrumental in executing the long-planned and first presidential funeral train since Dwight Eisenhower's in 1969. While millions around the globe watched on television, thousands of people stood for hours waiting to catch just a brief glimpse of the funeral train and pay their last respects. Led by the George Bush 4141 locomotive, the 13-car train made the 2.5 hour, 70-mile journey from Spring to College Station, Texas, where the former president was laid to rest after a final funeral in Houston. This special train served as a tangible connection between the people and their former president. "When you are an American company that was created by Abraham Lincoln's pen, well, patriotism and presidents run deep," said Scott Moore, Union Pacific senior vice president and chief administrative officer. "We have flags on the sides of our locomotives and nearly 20 percent of our workforce is military veterans. It was our privilege to honor President Bush in a way that gave Americans from all walks of life the opportunity to do the same."
- Private family albums of Queen Maud of Norway, and photographs and 16mm films of Crown Princess Märta, gives us a unique look behind royal facades in 19th and 20th century England and Norway.
- Several theories surrounding the Roosevelt Administration's foreknowledge of Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor are explored; that they did not have prior intelligence, that they bungled the intelligence, that they had conclusive prior knowledge but chose not to alert forces at Pearl and that they deliberately provoked the attack.
- Follow the life and career of the famed politician in the years before he became president, and explore the forces that shaped his vision.
- At the start of the 20th Century, Alaska is seen as frozen wasteland, filled with nothing but Inuits and Polar bears. It is America's last frontier. The discovery of Gold attracts Americans in their droves. Over the next six decades the exploitation of Alaska's vast natural resources leads to statehood.
- Rob examines how the Pilgrims and the Mayflower's crew overcame almost impossible odds to establish the colony that ultimately gave birth to the United States of America.
- Eleanor Roosevelt and former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt created arguably the most formidable political partnership in American history. Eleanor's desolate childhood sowed the seeds of a life devoted to standing up for the poor and dispossessed. By the time she reached the White House, she was at the forefront of efforts to ease the suffering caused by the Great Depression and a leader of the campaign for civil rights.
- Looking at Churchill's Christmas visit to Washington, DC in 1941, during which he secured the support of US president Franklin Roosevelt.
- A journey down the mighty Hudson along 315 miles of New York state's most stunning natural landscapes and ending at the undeniably iconic Statue of Liberty.
- They were the English spies before "James Bond." They operated in the shadows with innocuous names like the Special Operations Executive, MI-5 and MI-6, but their missions were deadly serious. Amazing facts that are stranger than fiction in the storied history of Britain's intelligence service during the Second World War.
- Go behind the scenes of FDR's use of political and military intelligence operatives. From O.S.S. chief William Donovan to the scheming Switzerland-based Allen Dulles, learn how American spymasters helped Roosevelt keep an eye on his enemies.
- An inside look at the man who, more than any of his contemporaries, embraced secret intelligence operations, deception and code-breaking as viable instruments of modern war.
- As the Great Depression worsens, people's hopes are fading fast. Just when things seem the worst, Franklin Roosevelt promises that "Happy Day Are Here Again." Will the New Deal save America from the most devastating economic disaster in modern history?
- 2011–2016TV Episode
- During the turbulent 1930s the stock market crash sent the United States into a tailspin of violence and disorder. As one president flounders, another offers a New Deal, putting America back to work and reshaping the landscape in the process. Revisit a decade when our nation was pushed to its limits and fought its way through, presented like it's never been seen before -- in color. From the end of Prohibition to the start of bold projects and from Dust Bowl nightmares to Technicolor Hollywood dreams, it's the '30s as only few have seen them.
- It was an American era defined by a world war that united a nation and triggered an economic boom, but also unleashed fear and prejudice. This is the story of the 1940s like it's never been seen before, thanks to digital colorization technology. Watch our transformation from an isolated country to a global superpower, captured by rarely seen footage of the Pearl Harbor attacks, home movies behind the barbed wire fences of Japanese American internment camps, and newsreels of post-war celebration, discontentment, and growing prosperity.
- Under the command of Admiral Nimitz in 1943, America advances towards Japan, engaging in a new series of island-hopping invasions through the Central Pacific. But a ferocious and inauspicious start at the Tarawa atoll forces war strategists to redesign their plan from top to bottom, sparking new innovations and breaking new barriers. With color combat footage and accounts from those who experienced the fight firsthand, this is an intimate look at some of the costliest and most critical battles of World War II.
- By the summer of 1944, America increasingly controlled the seas and skies of the Pacific, but the fighting on land remained bloody and brutal. As U.S. forces battled for two islands at once, Japan used ingenious dug-in bunkers and caves to make them pay for every inch of ground. Discover America's strategic and personal motivations behind their simultaneous invasions of Tinian and Guam and witness their far less successful plan to strike Japan from India and China with the new, troubled aircraft, the B-29.
- At the dawn of the 20th century, America west of the Mississippi was wild and untamed, featuring formidable landscapes and treacherous rivers. But in the following decades, industry and opportunity transformed the region into an economic and political powerhouse that drove change across the country and the world. Presented for the first time in color, revisit lands made famous by Buffalo Bill, championed by Teddy Roosevelt, and developed by opportunists seeking adventure and fortune.