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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.
- 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.
- The story of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt during their 12-year stay at the White House.
- Biopic about the final year of FDR's Presidency, and life.
- 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.
- 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.
- A television version of Dore Schary's one-man play about FDR, with its original star.
- 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."
- 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.
- 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.