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Politics. What Ken Burns' New Film Gets Right—and Wrong—About the Roosevelts In his latest documentary, Ken Burns examines the tangled lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.
Ken Burns says his new, 14-hour film, "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History," adds personal details about Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, to highlight not only their achievements but ...
Documentary historian Ken Burns pushed back against the idea that political division is increasing in the nation, suggesting ...
Ken Burns' new, 14-hour, seven-night saga, "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History," is an enlightening, engrossing and entertaining chronicle of Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, their ...
THE ROOSEVELTS had an average rating of 6.1 for all seven episodes (an average audience of 9.2 million P2+), making it the third highest-rated Ken Burns film following THE CIVIL WAR (1990) and ...
Ken Burns is at it again — biting off more than most filmmakers would, or could, dare to chew. For his latest PBS opus, America’s pre-eminent TV historian brings us “The Roosevelts: An ...
"The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" is a 14-hour documentary by Ken Burns focusing on Franklin, Eleanor and Theodore Roosevelt. This film will be shown Sept. 14-20 at 8 p.m. on PBS.
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, right, touches the chair where former President Franklin D. Roosevelt was sitting for a portrait when he died April 12, 1945 in his Georgia home.
Ken Burns‘ latest PBS opus, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, runs a whopping 14 hours and aims to cover previously unexplored areas in the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
On Oct. 16, 1901, less than five weeks after the assassination of William McKinley had made Theodore Roosevelt the youngest President in American history, Roosevelt invited the prominent black educ… ...
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 ...
NEW YORK – Behold this saga of bygone titans, a trio on an epic scale who share the same name. The latest magnum opus from Ken Burns, “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” premieres on PBS ...