The Roosevelts: An Intimate History The Common Cause (1939-1944) (Season 1, Episode 6)
TV-14
TV Episode | 113 min | Documentary, Biography, History

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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The Common Cause (1939-1944) (Season 1, Episode 6)

TV-14

TV Episode | 113 min | Documentary, Biography, History

WWII starts in Europe. FDR prepares the country for war and aids Churchill. Isolationists fight him at every step - until Pearl Harbor. FDR's unprecedented third term. Eleanor tackles racism and poverty. New jobs bring more diversity.

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34 cast members

Name	Known for
Peter Coyote Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Bitter Moon (1992)
Geoffrey C. Ward Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
Jon Meacham Self Self See fewer	The Front Runner (2018)
Doris Kearns Goodwin Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Lincoln (2012)
Blanche Wiesen Cook Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	The First Lady (2022)
George F. Will Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	Baseball (1994)
David McCullough Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Seabiscuit (2003)
Dorothy Height Self - Civil Rights Activist Self - Civil Rights Activist See fewer	Before the Memories Fade: Voices from the Civil Rights Movement (2012)
H.W. Brands Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	The American West (2016)
Meryl Streep Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) See fewer	Out of Africa (1985)
Patricia Clarkson Daisy Suckley (voice) Daisy Suckley (voice) See fewer	The Station Agent (2003)
Edward Herrmann Franklin Roosevelt (voice) Franklin Roosevelt (voice) See fewer	Overboard (1987)
Winston Churchill Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Matinee Theatre (1955)
Kevin Conway Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Gettysburg (1993)
Paul Giamatti Theodore Roosevelt Theodore Roosevelt See fewer	Sideways (2004)
William F. Halsey Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Showtime, U.S.A. (1950)
Hirohito Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Arrivée du prince du Japon Hiro Hito (1921)
Adolf Hitler Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Triumph of the Will (1935)
Harry Hopkins Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Krymskaya konferentsiya (1945)
Frank Knox Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Marguerite LeHand Self (archive footage) (as Missy LeHand) Self (archive footage) (as Missy LeHand) See fewer
Charles A. Lindbergh Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
John Lithgow Self (voice) Self (voice) See fewer	The World According to Garp (1982)
George C. Marshall Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Krymskaya konferentsiya (1945)
Lucy Mercer Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer
Eleanor Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Women in Defense (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The President's Mystery (1936)
Sara Delano Roosevelt Self (archive footage) (as Sarah Roosevelt) Self (archive footage) (as Sarah Roosevelt) See fewer	Women in the White House (2009)
Theodore Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Simple Gifts (1977)
Joseph Stalin Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) Self (archive footage) (as Iosif Stalin) See fewer	One Inch from Victory (1944)
Henry L. Stimson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Hiroshima: Why the Bomb Was Dropped (1995)
Margaret Suckley Self (archive footage) (as Daisy Suckley) Self (archive footage) (as Daisy Suckley) See fewer	Fala: The President's Dog (1943)
Billy Bob Thornton Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Sling Blade (1996)
Wendell Willkie Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	World Heavyweight Championship: Joe Louis vs. Buddy Baer (1942)