FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921)

Name: FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921)
Released: 1994-10-12
Cast: David McCullough, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Joseph Stalin, Eleanor Roosevelt

Series: American Experience

Season: Season 7

Episode Number: 1

Air Date: 10/12/1994

Duration: 55 min

Polio at age 39, president at age 50. Explore the public and private life of a determined man who steered the United States through two monumental crises: the Depression and World War II. FDR served as president longer than any other, and his legacy still shapes our understanding of the role of government and the presidency. A film by award winning filmmaker David Grubin. This first episode looks at the early life of FDR. Born into a wealthy family, there was little about his youth that would suggest the giant of history that he would become. His entry into state politics and a significant meeting with a woman named Eleanor would change his life and the course of a nation.