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Episode Detail: Eleanor Roosevelt - American Experience

Profiling Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962), the wife of one president, the niece of another and, says historian Geoffrey Ward, "one of the best politicians of the 20th century" in her own right. That's a remarkable achievement considering that she was also an implacable social reformer all her life. This biography recalls Roosevelt on the public stage, and delves gently but forthrightly into her complex private life. Alfre Woodard narrates.

Episodes: Eleanor Roosevelt - American Experience - 264 total Episodes

11/2/2009: Civilian Conservation Corps
5/18/2009: The Kennedys: American Experience    Season 21, Episode 10
5/11/2009: Wounded Knee    Season 21, Episode 9
5/4/2009: Geronimo    Season 21, Episode 8
4/27/2009: Trail of Tears    Season 21, Episode 7
4/20/2009: Tecumseh's Vision    Season 21, Episode 6
4/13/2009: After the Mayflower    Season 21, Episode 5
2/23/2009: A Class Apart    Season 21, Episode 4
2/9/2009: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln    Season 21, Episode 3
2/2/2009: The Polio Crusade    Season 21, Episode 2
1/26/2009: The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer    Season 21, Episode 1
5/6/2008: George H. W. Bush    Season 20, Episode 10
5/5/2008: George H.W. Bush    Season 20, Episode 9
4/21/2008: Roberto Clemente    Season 20, Episode 8
4/14/2008: Walt Whitman    Season 20, Episode 7
3/31/2008: Minik, the Lost Eskimo    Season 20, Episode 6
2/25/2008: Buffalo Bill    Season 20, Episode 5
2/18/2008: Kit Carson    Season 20, Episode 4
2/4/2008: Grand Central    Season 20, Episode 3
1/14/2008: Oswald's Ghost    Season 20, Episode 1
5/14/2007: Alexander Hamilton    Season 19, Episode 13
4/23/2007: Summer of Love    Season 19, Episode 12
4/9/2007: Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple    Season 19, Episode 11
4/2/2007: Sister Aimee    Season 19, Episode 10
2/12/2007: New Orleans    Season 19, Episode 9
2/5/2007: The Living Weapon    Season 19, Episode 8
1/29/2007: The Berlin Airlift    Season 19, Episode 7
11/6/2006: The Gold Rush    Season 19, Episode 6
10/30/2006: The Great Fever    Season 19, Episode 5
10/23/2006: Test Tube Babies    Season 19, Episode 4
10/16/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Mississippi: Is This America? 1963-1964; Bridge to Freedom 1965    Season 19, Episode 3
10/9/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Ain't Scared of Your Jails 1960-1961; No Easy Walk 1961-1963    Season 19, Episode 2
10/2/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings 1954-1956; Fighting Back 1957-1962    Season 19, Episode 1
10/2/2006: Eyes on the Prize: Awakenings
5/22/2006: The Man Behind Hitler    Season 18, Episode 13
5/8/2006: Annie Oakley    Season 18, Episode 12
4/24/2006: The Alaska Pipeline    Season 18, Episode 11
4/10/2006: The Boy in the Bubble    Season 18, Episode 10
3/27/2006: Eugene O'Neill    Season 18, Episode 9
2/27/2006: Hijacked!    Season 18, Episode 8
2/6/2006: Jesse James    Season 18, Episode 7
1/30/2006: The Nuremberg Trials    Season 18, Episode 6
1/23/2006: John & Abigail Adams    Season 18, Episode 5
11/16/2005: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History    Season 18, Episode 4
11/14/2005: Las Vegas: An Unconventional History    Season 18, Episode 3
10/31/2005: Race to the Moon    Season 18, Episode 2
10/17/2005: Two Days in October    Season 18, Episode 1
5/23/2005: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst    Season 17, Episode 12
5/9/2005: The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken    Season 17, Episode 11
5/2/2005: Victory in the Pacific    Season 17, Episode 10
4/25/2005: The Fall of Saigon    Season 17, Episode 9
4/18/2005: The Massie Affair    Season 17, Episode 8
4/11/2005: The Great Transatlantic Cable    Season 17, Episode 7
4/4/2005: Mary Pickford    Season 17, Episode 6
2/14/2005: Kinsey    Season 17, Episode 5
2/7/2005: Building the Alaska Highway    Season 17, Episode 4
1/31/2005: Fidel Castro    Season 17, Episode 3
10/18/2004: The Fight    Season 17, Episode 2
10/4/2004: RFK    Season 17, Episode 1
5/3/2004: Golden Gate Bridge    Season 16, Episode 9
4/19/2004: Patriots Day    Season 16, Episode 8
4/12/2004: Emma Goldman    Season 16, Episode 7
2/9/2004: Tupperware    Season 16, Episode 6
2/2/2004: Remember the Alamo    Season 16, Episode 5
1/19/2004: Citizen King    Season 16, Episode 4
1/13/2004: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War    Season 16, Episode 3
1/12/2004: Reconstruction: The Second Civil War    Season 16, Episode 2
9/8/2003: The Center of the World    Season 16, Episode 1
7/14/2003: Murder at Harvard    Season 15, Episode 13
7/7/2003: Bataan Rescue    Season 15, Episode 12
4/21/2003: Seabiscuit    Season 15, Episode 11
4/7/2003: Daughter from Danang    Season 15, Episode 10
2/24/2003: The Pill    Season 15, Episode 9
2/10/2003: Partners of the Heart    Season 15, Episode 8
1/27/2003: Transcontinental Railroad    Season 15, Episode 7
1/20/2003: The Murder of Emmett Till    Season 15, Episode 6
1/15/2003: Chicago: City of the Century---The Battle for Chicago    Season 15, Episode 5
1/14/2003: Chicago: City of the Century---The Revolution Has Begun    Season 15, Episode 4
1/13/2003: Chicago: City of the Century---Mud Hole to Metropolis    Season 15, Episode 3
11/12/2002: Jimmy Carter: Hostage    Season 15, Episode 2
11/11/2002: Jimmy Carter: Jimmy Who?    Season 15, Episode 1
11/11/2002: Jimmy Carter
5/12/2002: Ulysses S. Grant    Season 14, Episode 12
5/5/2002: Ulysses S. Grant    Season 14, Episode 11
4/28/2002: A Brilliant Madness    Season 14, Episode 10
4/21/2002: Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film    Season 14, Episode 9
2/24/2002: Public Enemy # 1    Season 14, Episode 8
2/17/2002: Monkey Trial    Season 14, Episode 7
2/10/2002: Zoot Suit Riots    Season 14, Episode 6
1/27/2002: Miss America    Season 14, Episode 5
1/20/2002: Mount Rushmore    Season 14, Episode 4
1/13/2002: Woodrow Wilson    Season 14, Episode 3
1/6/2002: Woodrow Wilson    Season 14, Episode 2
11/11/2001: War Letters    Season 14, Episode 1
8/5/2001: Streamliners: America's Lost Trains
4/23/2001: Stephen Foster
4/16/2001: Fatal Flood
4/2/2001: Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
2/21/2001: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
2/20/2001: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
2/19/2001: Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided
2/13/2001: Marcus Garvey: Look for Me in the Whirlwind
11/14/2000: Return with Honor
10/30/2000: Secrets of a Master Builder
10/24/2000: The Rockefellers
10/17/2000: The Rockefellers
5/23/2000: The Wizard of Photography
5/9/2000: Joe DiMaggio: The Hero's Life
5/2/2000: Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory
4/25/2000: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
4/24/2000: George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire
2/28/2000: John Brown's Holy War
2/15/2000: The Duel
2/1/2000: Nixon's China Game
1/25/2000: Houdini
1/10/2000: Eleanor Roosevelt
5/24/1999: Fly Girls
4/5/1999: Lost in the Grand Canyon
2/22/1999: Meltdown at Three Mile Island
1/18/1999: Hoover Dam
2/23/1998: Reagan
10/6/1997: Truman
10/5/1997: Truman
10/28/1996: Amelia Earhart
10/16/1995: Murder of the Century
10/12/1994: FDR: The Grandest Job in the World/The Juggler
10/11/1994: FDR: The Center of the World/Fear Itself
5/25/1994: D-Day
1/26/1994: Malcolm X: Make It Plain
10/15/1993: Nixon
10/28/1992: The Donner Party
11/12/1990: The Crash of 1929
10/1/1990: Lindbergh
Geronimo and the Apache Resistance
Scandalous Mayor
American Experience
Do You Mean There Are Still Real Cowboys?
Hawaii's Last Queen
The Battle of the Bulge
Goin' Back to T'Town
Ballad of the Mountain Man
Yosemite: Fate of Heaven
Telegrams from the Dead
Sit Down and Fight Walter Reuther and the Rise of the Auto Workers' Union
The Kennedys
Riding the Rails
Family Gathering
Demon Rum
Massachusetts 54th Colored Infantry
Vietnam: A Television History (TET)
Midnight Ramble
The Battle Over Citizen Kane
Mr. Sears Catalogue
Hurricane of '38
Forbidden City, USA
New York Underground
Radio Priest
Liberators Fighting on Two Fronts in WWII
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
MacArthur: The Politics of War
Sins of Our Mothers: The Story of Emeline
Vietnam: A Television History (Vietnamizing the War)
Vietnam: A Television History (Homefront USA)
FDR
Alone on the Ice
The Great San Francisco Earthquake
Wild by Law
Truman: Accident of Democracy
If You Knew Sousa
Hearts and Hands
American Experience
Johnstown Flood
The Orphan Trains
Knute Rockne and His Fighting Irish
The Wright Stuff
Vietnam: A Television History (LBJ Goes to War)
Views of the Vanishing Frontier
The Way West
Edison's Miracle of Light
Journey to America
Coney Island
Last Stand at Little Big Horn
Great War of 1918
Battle for Wilderness
Guts and Glory
Insanity on Trial
The Way West: Ghost Dance
The Quiz Show Scandal
The Way West: Approach of Civilization
LBJ
G-Men: The Rise of J. Edgar Hoover
America and the Holocaust---Deceit and Indifference
Mr. Miami Beach
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
The Great Air Race of 1924
Los Mineros
American Experience
The Iron Road
After the Crash
Chicago 1968
God Bless America and Poland Too
Big Dream, Small Screen
Love in the Cold War
The Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie
Orphans of the Storm
Duke Ellington: Reminiscing in Tempo
The Hunt for Pancho Villa
Reagan
Wildcatter: A Story of Texas Oil
The World That Moses Built
The Kennedys
A Midwife's Tale
Forever Baseball
Vietnam: A Television History (America Takes Charge)
Simple Justice
Daley, the Last Boss
Let Us Now Praise Famous Men Revisited
One Woman, One Vote
Truman
Adam Clayton Powell
Ishi: The Last Yahi Indian
Roots of Resistance: Story of the Underground Railroad
Satellite Sky
Radio Bikini
Eric Sevareid: Not So Wild a Dream
The Way West: Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
Rescue at Sea
LBJ
In the White Man's Image
Vietnam: A Television History (Cambodia and Laos)
Surviving the Dust Bowl
Kennedy vs. Wallace: A Crisis up Close
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo
Truman: The Moon, the Stars and the Planets
LBJ
Gold Fever
The Way West: The War for the Black Hills
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt
Ida B. Wells: Passion for Justice
Vietnam: A Television History (End of the Tunnel)
Vietnam: A Television History (Roots of War/America's Mandarin)
MacArthur: Destiny
Barnum's Big Top
Eisenhower
Vietnam: A Television History (America's Enemy)
Around the World in 72 Days
Influenza 1918
French Dance Tonight
Pearl Harbor
The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter
Reagan
Vietnam: A Television History (Peace Is at Hand)
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
The Way West
Spy in the Sky
That Rhythm, Those Blues
Eudora Welty, One Writers Beginnings
Race for the Superbomb
The Telephone
The Kennedys
George Washington: The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
America 1900
The Kennedys
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