Movies: Franklin D. Roosevelt

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other....

Short documentary about the Great Depression's impact on film, specifically Berkeley musicals....

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 the Allied advance on Japan. Four cameramen died bringing this footage to the public...

The discovery of the USS Indianapolis wreck site, 18,000 feet below the Philippine Sea, is detailed. The ship's sinking during World War II was the largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history....

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

The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet their long saga proves that money is no guarantee of happiness or stability. John Jacob Astor built an empire by parlaying a job in the fur business into ...

Know Your Ally: Britain was a 45-minute propaganda film made in 1944. It was narrated by Walter Huston and produced by the United States War Department and Signal Corp to solidify Anglo-American solidarity within the ranks as well as counter Nazi pro...

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 "chapters" of the work, relevant excerpts from MGM films show the history of America. The chapters are: 1)...

The story behind the creation of Mount Rushmore National Memorial....

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

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 narration, shows "how, through their disunity, democracies were led, some to destruction and others to th...

The complex relationship between royal brothers Edward VIII and George VI, who were both at the heart of the infamous abdication crisis of 1936, is the subject of this excellent documentary. From British Pathé TV's Royalty Collection....

The film depicts Olav Vs and Märtha from Norway's trip to the USA in 1939...

A propaganda short about the 1944 United States presidential election, produced by the Office of War information, for overseas distribution. It is meant to explain how the democratic process in America works. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in...

Presents the history of the U S from the inauguration of Franklin D Roosevelt to the eve of World War II, including the Great Depression and New Deal legislation designed to overcome it. Emphasizes events that had lasting effects on the nation, such ...

The Inauguration ceremony for Franklin D. Roosevelt on March 4th 1933....

IOC has restored 18 minutes from the 1932 Lake Placid Olympics. Ten of those minutes are silent sequences from men’s speed skating. The other eight minutes are taken from newsreel reports produced by Hearst Metrotone, Fox Movietone and Pathé....

An air raid warden demonstrates safety measures, while a refugee from Occupied Europe reveals why she came to America....

Highly controversial and widely criticized revisionist documentary that presents an alternative, conspiratorial narrative about World War II. The film claims that Jewish people deliberately instigated both World War I and World War II in order to fur...