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Title

FDR [videorecording] / a David Grubin Productions, Inc. film for The American experience ; [a production of] WGBH, Boston.

Publication

[Alexandria, Va.?] : PBS Video, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McCullough, David G.
• Grubin, David
• Ward, Geoffrey C.
• Goodwin, Doris Kearns
• David Grubin Productions
• WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Uniform Title

American experience (Television program)

Alternative Title

F D R

Subject

• Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
• Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962
• World War, 1939-1945 > United States
• Video recordings for hard of hearing people
• Presidents > United States > Biography
• Biographical films
• Documentary films
• United States > History > 1933-1945
• United States > Politics and government > 1933-1945

Note

• Part one is based on Before the trumpet and part two is based on A first class temperament by Geoffrey C. Ward.
• Part four based on the book, No ordinary time by Doris Kearns Goodwin.
• Originally telecast on the PBS series The American experience: c1994.
• Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Credits (note)

• Writer/producer, David Grubin ; executive producer, Judy Crichton ; editors, Susan Fanshel, Geof Bartz ; senior creative consultant, Geoffrey C. Ward.

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Contents

pt. 1. The center of the world. Fear itself -- pt. 2. The grandest job in the world. The juggler.

Title

FDR [videorecording] / a David Grubin Productions, Inc. film for The American experience ; [a production of] WGBH, Boston.

Imprint

[Alexandria, Va.?] : PBS Video, c1994.

Description

2 videocassettes (260 min.) : sd., col. & b&w ; 1/2 in.

System Details

VHS.

Performer

Narrator, David McCullough.

Credits

Writer/producer, David Grubin ; executive producer, Judy Crichton ; editors, Susan Fanshel, Geof Bartz ; senior creative consultant, Geoffrey C. Ward.

Summary

Offers a portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who served as president longer than anyone before or since, and led America through the two greatest crises of this century, the Great Depression and World War II.

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Added Author

McCullough, David G.

Grubin, David.

Ward, Geoffrey C. Before the trumpet.

Ward, Geoffrey C. First class temperament.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No ordinary time.

David Grubin Productions.

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

Added Title

American experience (Television program)

Publisher No.

AMEX-777 PBS Video

Branch Call Number

VC 973.917 F