Franklin D. Roosevelt Movies

Part of John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series, this short shows how three seemingly unimportant things can affect people. The first is how the number...

A Washington Parade reel....

The story behind the creation of Mount Rushmore National Memorial.

Using over an hour of new, never-before-seen material, combined with footage from 1946, producers David Abravanel Stein and Patrick S. Cunningham...

U.S. Goverment film about the creation of the Tennessee Valley Authority in the 1930s and 1940s.

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this...

Narrated by veteran Hollywood actor Tom Selleck, REMEMBER PEARL HARBOR chronicles the personal stories of veterans and citizens who witnessed the...

Traces the origins and actions of World War I, from the funeral of Britain's King Edward VII to the Versailles Treaty.

An HBO documentary, takes a ‘personal, not political’ look at George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States.

Fala was the famous Scotch Terrier owned by Franklin Delano Roosevelt during his last two presidential terms.

This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6...

Using newsreel footage, this film reviews world events from the end of World War I to the American entry into World War II and, according to the...

By spring of 1942, Japan controlled the western Pacific, the Philippines, and large parts of Indochina. America and her allies knew that final...

Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately put all his campaign promises into...

The story of the fascist conman Fritz Julius Kuhn is as unknown as it is terrifying: Kuhn is a German immigrant who pretends to be Hitler’s...

Documentary short film depicting the American assault on the Japanese-held island of Iwo Jima and the massive battle that raged on that key island in...

Compilation film about a very German first half of the 20th century.

The legacy of Franklin D. Roosevelt is detailed by combining present day interviews with historical material. It examines his response to the Great...

This short uses a musical suite to show Americans what they are fighting for in World War II. As an orchestra in military dress plays different...