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Actors: David McCullough (II), Alfre Woodard
Directors: Sue Williams (II)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
Rating: 
Studio: PBS Paramount
DVD Release Date: January 10, 2006
Run Time: 150 minutes
Average Customer Review:
  (6 customer reviews)
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This review is from: American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt (VHS Tape)
As a history minor in college and one who has remained very interested in the field, I have occasionally read material about Eleanor Roosevelt. However, it was always on the periphery of my main interests, so I had no idea what I was missing until I saw this tape. She was one of the most dynamic and influential people that this country has produced. Having had a miserable childhood, where even her mother commented that she was ugly, she seemed destined to take up a life as a dutiful wife to a successful husband. However, and fortunately, that was not to be as she found herself and began a life of activism that made her enemies, but also made her the most powerful woman of the first half of the twentieth century. In many ways, she was the perfect counter to her husband, as she could go out and take the heat for actions that FDR simply could not do. In this tape, stocked with newsreel footage, photographs and interviews with relatives and family friends, you learn much about what drove her to succeed. As seems so common, it was partly due to deep-seated feelings of early inadequacy and her hectic pace was the preventive cure from having to stop and perhaps be overcome by depression. Nothing is kept from you, even the supposedly platonic love affairs she had with men and women. Her relationship with FDR was interesting, but probably not all that unique. As the story unfolds, it reminds you in many ways of the relationship that must exist between Bill and Hillary Clinton. Certainly, if times had been different, Eleanor could also have served in Congress. Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the bravest, most dedicated people the world has ever seen. Sure she made enemies, but being hated by the likes of bigoted segregationists and J. Edgar Hoover is a point of commendation. The most interesting fact in the tapes is that Hoover hated her and her FBI file is one of the thickest on record. But then, so is her record of achievement.
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