FDR

Plot

The new documentary event will provide an epic portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, unpacking how his own fight with polio prepared him for the challenges of leading the United States through the Great Depression and World War II. Based upon Goodwin's New York Times bestseller, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, viewers will experience a most harrowing, yet heroic time in history when through grit, commitment and shared sacrifice FDR was the right man at the right time to lead the U.S. and the allied nations, projecting confidence in himself and America.

Cast

Christian McKay

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Alice Bounsall

Eleanor Roosevelt

Rufus Jones

Theodore Roosevelt

Adrian Galley

Jazzara Jaslyn

Pierre Malherbe

Rupert Anderson

Anthony C. Hyde

Jacques Adriaanse

Sean Cameron Michael

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self - President of US (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self - Prime Minister of UK (archive footage)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Self - First Lady US (archive footage)