THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY, a new documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns, chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential ...

Get action: 1858-1901 -- In the arena: 1901-1910 -- The fire of life: 1910-1919 -- The storm: 1920-1933 -- The rising road: 1933-1939 -- The common cause: 1939-1944 -- A strong and active faith: ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — For 30 years, Ken Burns has found the Roosevelt family "irresistible." Various members of the political dynasty have popped up in the filmmaker's projects on America's ...

NEW YORK — Ken Burns’ series “The Roosevelts” earned PBS its biggest audience in two decades, making it the documentary maker’s third most popular film after “The Civil War” and “Lewis & Clark: The ...

CHAUTAUQUA – Great leaders are often defined by even greater adversity. Such was the theme of Ken Burns’ moving documentary on the Roosevelts, shown in excerpts Friday at the Chautauqua Institution ...

WARM SPRINGS, Ga. (AP) — Filmmaker Ken Burns said Saturday that he wants to tell the story of three of the most famous Roosevelts, their strengths and weaknesses, in an upcoming documentary on one of ...

David Schmidt has spent his entire career at Florentine Films, beginning as an intern and rising within the company to senior producer. He previously worked with Ken Burns on The Roosevelts: An ...

David McMahon has been making award-winning documentary films for more than a decade. With Ken Burns and Sarah Burns, he wrote, directed and produced The Central Park Five, a two-hour film about the ...

NEW YORK (AP) — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New ...