Ken Burns’s 7 episode PBS opus, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, debuts Sunday night at 8 p.m.
THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY 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.
Todd VanDerWerff at Vox.com breaks down each episode in Ken Burns’s new film The Roosevelts is 14 hours long. Which hours should you watch? Gosh Todd — all of it!
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns’s latest PBS opus, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, debuts Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern, before unspooling its next six installments at the same time every other night of the week. If you’d rather stream, the entirety of the miniseries will be available Monday on PBS.com, PBS member sites, and various PBS digital platforms. (It leaves streaming Friday, Sept. 26, so hurry.) It will also be rerun frequently on PBS and comes out on DVD Tuesday.
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My husband and I went to an AZPM preview event at Crowder Hall of this film, and were intrigued by the relationships between these 3 Roosevelts, with the men being 5th cousins, Teddy being uncle to Eleanor, who married Franklin. Excepts of their successes and tragedies were shown by this film. Then granddaughter Nina Roosevelt Gibson (Vail, AZ resident) spoke candidly about her relationship with Eleanor, their travels, and what it was like to have such a famous grandmother. Watch this film to learn more.