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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35 cast members

Name	Known for
Peter Coyote Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Bitter Moon (1992)
William Leuchtenburg Self - Historian (as William E. Leuchtenburg) Self - Historian (as William E. Leuchtenburg) See fewer	The Dust Bowl (2012)
George F. Will Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	Baseball (1994)
Doris Kearns Goodwin Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Lincoln (2012)
Jon Meacham Self Self See fewer	The Front Runner (2018)
Jonathan Alter Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	Alpha House (2013)
H.W. Brands Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	The Titans That Built America (2021)
Geoffrey C. Ward Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
Blanche Wiesen Cook Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	The First Lady (2022)
Dorothy Height Self - Civil Rights Activist Self - Civil Rights Activist See fewer	Before the Memories Fade: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement (2012)
Marion Dunn Self - Warm Springs Self - Warm Springs See fewer	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Meryl Streep Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) See fewer	Out of Africa (1985)
Patricia Clarkson Daisy Suckley (voice) Daisy Suckley (voice) See fewer	The Station Agent (2003)
Edward Herrmann Franklin Roosevelt (voice) Franklin Roosevelt (voice) See fewer	Overboard (1987)
Mary McLeod Bethune Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Kevin Conway Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Gettysburg (1993)
Paul Giamatti Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt See fewer	Sideways (2004)
Lorena Hickock Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Harry Hopkins Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Krymskaya konferentsiya (1945)
King George VI Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' (1943)
John Lithgow Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	The World According to Garp (1982)
Carl Lumbly Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984)
Amy Madigan Actress (voice) Actress (voice) See fewer	Field of Dreams (1989)
Carolyn McCormick Actress (voice) Actress (voice) See fewer	Law & Order (1990)
J.P. Morgan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Mutual Weekly, No. 3 (1913)
Benito Mussolini Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Hundred Days (1935)
Frances Perkins Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Autobiography of a 'Jeep' (1943)
Pamela Reed Actress (voice) Actress (voice) See fewer	Proof of Life (2000)
Eleanor Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Women in Defense (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The President's Mystery (1936)
Theodore Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Simple Gifts (1978)
Margaret Suckley Self (archive footage) (as Daisy Suckley) Self (archive footage) (as Daisy Suckley) See fewer	Fala: The President's Dog (1943)
Billy Bob Thornton Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Sling Blade (1996)