Eleanor and Franklin part 2: The White House and War Years (1977 miniseries) 

Eleanor had me when I learned that she got into an airplane of the Tusegee Airmen, a black swadron in WWII, at a time when people did not think that a black man could fly a plane!!! Eleanor rocks!!!! Best First Lady ever! Live what you preach, not preach water and drink wine. What a great movie!! thanks for posting it

Honestly this is one of the best Dimensions of the Roosevelts. Of Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt. God bless them if it not been for both of them America would not be as great as it is!! They will always be in our history books for an amazing President and a amazing First Lady 💜 💜 💜

I read when Eleanor visited the troops in the Pacific in WW2, it was something the soldiers hadn't seen in a long time - a mother figure. It meant so much to them - touring musicians, actors, and actresses could not come close to replicate. Eleanor recognized that many of the soldiers would not return home and toured troops, hospitals, and cemeteries sun up to sun down. The scene with Robert Dunlop in the hospital brought tears to me, knowing my father also served in the Pacific.

If they even produce this movie again with others actors, they will never ever create the essence the original actors and actresses pro trade in this movie. Jane Alexander was awesome! 🏆🏆🏆

Eleanor was the true strength behind Franklin ! Their son married my first cousin Edith Dupont in my little state of Delaware . The same place that Anderson met her husband Fisher . I'm very proud of my family who gave up all there membership to the southern women membership in Andersons name ! Cheers to my Great Grand mother & my Grand mother !!!

My father is the man singing and playing the accordion at 2:11:33. His name is Carl Blackwell Lester. The singer and musician he portrayed was FDR's favorite singer/musician, who wrote my father a letter thanking him for his performance.

Brilliant performances. Still holds up. FDR and Eleanor, my heroes.

God love Mrs.Rosevelt,she had so very many heartbreaks. I wonder if the world ever knew just how important that she was. However if it’s looked back on the First Ladies pay such an unbelievable price behind the scenes. It’s absolutely remarkable. They are such glue,and they suffer in silence.

It's truly disgusting how these Presidents are so blatant with their affairs & the many that go along & encourage it. Not to mention the daughter to go along & betray her mother. Goodness, Ms. Eleanor truly was the force in that administration & she is so betrayed. Bless her, for loving her country & people. She was definitely the People's Lady of America. Bless her....❤

A truly wonderful historical tribute to The Roosevelt’s, Eleanor and Franklin ~ In Sincere Gratitude To All Concerned💫🙏🏻

I pitied Eleanor…a woman of grace. How humiliated she must have felt. Just sad.

This. Is the best movie . I have seen in years. Congratulations to the actors

Justifying adultery is pathetic. Blaming Eleanor for Franklin's loneliness cruel. This may be fictional, but nothing justifies adultery. Its just plain selfishness.

This film is towering achievement. Still brilliant after all these years.

I wonder when the Academy will deign itself to give Jane Alexander an Oscar for her brilliant, distinguished career as an actor.

this actor Edward Herrmann truly talented... sadly underrated... now days they give Oscars to most anybody.....

I am persuaded after watching this as well as Winston Churchill the Wilderness years that those men could be called great men as it were without the unique women that they were married to history would have turned out a lot differently

I truly loved this. I'm proud to be one of her descendants. She showed so much loyalty to everyone even those who betrayed her. I think the war on equality for all started with her in so many ways & even the haters could not make her back down from what she believed to be right & true. I'm taking away so much for this very well done documentary/movie. I will always feel her daughter betrayed her & she was much more forgiving than I would have been since it was her daughter who actually contacted his old flame & that after many visits, she happened to be present at his death.

I just took a break from the movie because I was thinking whoever cast this movie was brilliant can you imagine anybody other than Jane Alexander and Edward Herman to play these two people

Eleanor was talked down to on a regular basis…so demeaning. She deserved so much better than a unappreciative, cheating husband.

I've been looking for this I'd seen it several years ago and remember how good it was I have part I on VHS and watch it occasionally it was perfectly cast and very well done

Great series what an amazing power couple The world has much to be grateful for Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor was twice the woman he was the man. A beautiful lady. He didn’t deserve her.

The best miniseries were made in the 70s. This is one of them. I was twelve when this first aired and have loved it since. I finally broke down a few years ago and bought the dvds.

There's a closeness and a distance between them

This is the first time I have seen this movie. I was Very moved by the touching performances involved. F.D.R was a great man in every sense of the word. He provided practical and moral friendship and helped with Churchill to forge an unbeatable team when our two great countries faced evil. May that bond between the U.K and the U.S.A never be broken.God bless America!🇺🇸🇬🇧Alan, U.K..

Brilliant Actors. Absolutely loved this film...part 1 and 2. Thank you!

My God she was a hell of a woman ! God rest her soul !!!

Hermann does an INCREDIBLE job of portraying President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Even as the actor's health was deteriorating from cancer, he managed to portray Roosevelt one last time by providing his "FDR voice" to Ken Burns' "The Roosevelts" documentary in late 2014.

Thank you! I saw the Film ... puh ... Decades ago! Most of the Film i didn´t remember any more! Edward Herrmann and Jane Alexander were to good!!! Again: THANK YOU!!!

This film won 7 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Art Direction or Scenic Design for a Dramatic Special, Outstanding Costume Design for a Drama Special, Outstanding Any Area of Creative Technical Crafts - Hairstyling, Outstanding Makeup, Outstanding Film Editing for a Special, Outstanding Directing in a Special Program - Drama or Comedy and Outstanding Special - Drama or Comedy.

What a woman, deep respect for her after reading books about her life now watching this video, so well done……I agree Eleanor could have been President timing is everything……little credit from anyone for all she did in her campaigning for FDR…..

I truly enjoyed this I think there should be more movies like this about the former presidents both FDR and ELEANOR ROOSEVELT were remarkable people they were truly Patriots which you do not see anymore

Together with part I these two films are the core of my inspiration in life, to never surrender to a disability & to embrace a faith in Ur own dreams. Beautifully made & acted

Elinor with All The betrayal from Franklin and The many pain and loses she endured was a very talented intelligent gifted woman she had a big hand in Franklin becoming president Franklin thou flawed was one of our greatest presidents he was the right president at the right Time to heal our land

The kind of mother-in-law you're tempted to ship to Siberia. hahahahahaha!!

I didn't see this when it came out. Why? It's exactly the kind of historical movie I like. However, in 1977, I was in the Navy, stationed in Spain. Armed Forces Radio and Television didn't provide service for our base (technically a Spanish base). Star Wars didn't make it to our base, either. I didn't bother to get a TV where the best thing on seemed to be old reruns of McMillan & Wife--dubbed into Spanish, of course. Anyway, here it is 45 years later and I'm finally seeing it.

If only we had political figures today with the same morals, the same values as the Roosevelts had.

Thank you for signing The Social Security Act President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on August 14, 1935.

Both these films are excellent. Thank you so much.

They were such awesome leaders both of them. It’s a travesty that we have no leaders of their caliber any longer. I love this mini series as much as the first part Eleanor and Franklin. If you haven’t read Mr. Lash’s book, I urge you to do so. It’s fabulous reading. Thank you for sharing this with us.

I so admire Elenore. She was one fine lady. I have watched this movie countless times and never get tired of it i aleays see something i missed. RIP ❤❤

Excellent! Exceptional couple. Great people.

Superb music score by John Barry.

I felt bitter for Eleanor the first time I saw this film so long ago. Now I see the film does give some respite from the sense of her betrayal.

great movie. Finally finished this. The actress who played Eleanor was such a gem. I felt she captured Eleanor just perfectly. They don't make movies like this now a days. so good.

I adored this series❤❤❤

I have great respect for Eleanor.

such incredibly talented actors!

Edward Herrmann sounds so different here from the History Channel docs he narrated back in the day. RIP.

Behind every good man is a good woman Behind every great man is a great woman

I felt so bad when the baby died.She got no sympathy or understanding.

This is really well done. I wish that they would have continued with Eleanor after his death. Her life was incredible. Mr. Harry Belafonte considered her his second mother.

I am so glad I made the time to watch this lengthy film series. I am sure it meant so much at the time of its release in 1976 to the elder generations whose lives were so influenced by the age of Roosevelt. I was deeply touched by the Xmas scene with FDR reading Dickens to the family. While our father never read "A Christmas Carol" to us, the entire family would watch it together on Xmas eve; something I still do to this day. I was hoping to see so much more on the supporting cast colleagues of Roosevelt's rise to greatness and reign. I nevertheless enjoyed the entire content of the film, some aspects of which I truly knew nothing about. The final scene with Eleanor and Anne in discussion on the subject of the bonds between man and woman itself was fabulous. That discourse merited a Pulitzer prize of its own.

I watch our Presidents of past and ask myself, how in Gods name did we wind up with the past few administrations??

both Teddy and Franklin Roosevelt will always be remembered among America's greatest presidents, and Eleanor Roosevelt will always be remembered as one of America's most beloved first ladies

Eleanor and Franklin, as most marriages. lived very separate lives. Especially near the end.

isnt it funny when people are caught in lies and deceit like their daughter Anna...that they automatically blame the person that caught them.....FOR CATCHING THEM... what a pitiful daughter she was....totally disgusting

Very topical comment by Eleanor about not employing their son James to work with Franklin and how it would look employing family

An epic journey. Where do we have such leaders as FDR and Eleanor today? I just visited Hyde Park last week. They are buried together with the little dog Falla.

A great film thank you for posting

Absolutely mesmerizing 😮

Loved the movie. They did not make either one out to be some sort of saint - really good.

Wow! Mark Harmon as one of the wounded servicemen talking to the First Lady!

It was so sad when Missy Lehand had a stroke in the White House on June 4, 1941.

This was excellent-thanks

Thank you for sharing this!!!

I really enjoyed this!

Tidbit----Missy Lehand spent her last days in her family's home 101 Orchard St. Somerville MA-------literally 430 feet from 26 Russell St. Cambridge where Tip O'Neill lived with his family till the 80's

It’s disgusting how her own daughter betrayed her.

This mini-series biopic is a class act: great performances all around--great dialogue, sets, costumes, music and direction recreate the imagery and feelings of its characters, eras and places with high art and verisimilitude. In a time machine, we are there.

FDR hurt Eleanor so deeply with the affairs and so many people knew...

Ed Herman was fantastic as the law student In THE PAPER CHASE. Very convincing performance then and here.

Rest In Peace Franklin Delano Roosevelt and thank you.

Fantastic movie. Ed Herrmann and Jane Alexander were spot-on in their roles.

Elinor was a compassionate humanitarian and largely influenced Franklin in The Long neglected subject of The very poor The horrible treatment of the Jews and others suffering she is the one who gave heart to the presidency c

Thank you for great movie.

I am so glad I watched this - I had read a lot about Franklin and Eleanor, but this film revealed a problem they both had in dealing honestly and openly with their feelings. What I knew of Eleanor dealt mainly with her political interests, and causes she adopted and worked so hard for. Her political outlook was so much at odds with my own, I found it difficult to feel much sympathy/empathy for her. But this film shows how impossible it is for two people who both keep their deepest feelings to themselves to find the satisfaction most of us hope for within a marriage. FDR "fell in love" with Lucy Mercer - she brought him "out of himself" and enabled him to enjoy a relationship in which they both participated not just on a work and political level, but in terms of emotion. Eleanor, deeply wounded to her soul by FDR's finding a woman who gave him what she could not, sublimated her need by channelling it into all the genuinely good works and causes she adopted as her own. FDR either never knew how agonising was the pain he had inflicted on her, or he knew, but could not either give up Lucy or find a means of explaining to her why he felt the need for Lucy. All that pain, because they could not share their emotional needs with one another. I finished watching feeling I understood Eleanor at a level I had not realised at all before….so thanks very much for showing me this side of her, and enabling me to find a great deal of sympathy for both of them in the process.

Unless you have ever been cheated on you can not feel what Elenor endured all those years. And then to be betrayed by your own daughter too ! Elenor had what very few humans have. She is the great one in this story. RIP Mrs Roosevelt ❤.

We are the emerald city and historical markers with my great grandmother's lovely poetry and your names with hers as she was a proud woman of her people a n d world she made for us to live in.

These are my family tree and will be remembered as faithful loving parents and grandparents . WE love!!! ❤

I chuckled a little bit at the beginning of this movie where you see Franklin and Eleanor in a horse carriage entering the White House and you see in the background a few late 70s cars driving by LOL

I wish FDR had given up Lucy.

What an awesome movie!!!💜

Beautiful movie. Thanks so much.

*Thank you!!* I can't believe I hadn't seen this one.

Such a beautiful and honest movie. Although I do take issue with the make-up that they applied to make them look older, but I'm sure they did the best they could with what they had in the 70's. It seemed to be applied a little heavy-handed and didn't look natural.

R I P Ed Herman. He was so wonderful as Father Mc Cabe on St. Elsewhere.

It seems after Eleanors Father Franklin showed her real attention & dedication & recognition of who she was & loved her for it. He had just had not been her equal in self-discipline & thats what caused the deepest grief ..but I put 59% blame of Franklins mother in that way. I think Eleanor & those close to both Eleanor & Franklin could see more wisdom in his wife > than in himself & recognized his need for her was greater than any other woman. She raised the bar for all of us. Hopefully she felt a contentment in her last years of being really recognized for her true value.

Adore historical films😎😎😎😎😎😎

The only thing missing from Jane Alexander's brilliant performance is that I wish she had smiled more.Eleanor had a beautiful, sweet smile.

Thank you. Love these two movies.

He was President Of The United States during the Hindenburg Disaster. May 6, 1937

FDR and Eleanor were an amazing first couple. It's cool how the White House staff could have a lot of fun together while working hard. FDR and ER obviously were the main focus in this, but I also thought the scenes with the minor characters like Missy LeHand and Louie Howe were well done too. Thanks for the upload. Best FDR and ER movie ever!!!

love the theme song

I was very fortunate to have visited Spring Wood.

I saw the actor who plays FDR in this back in the 90's doing documentaries on A&E, History Channel (when they did more history than junk), etc. And thought he looks like FDR, someone should caste him as FDR in a movie or something... well looks like someone thought the same two decades before me.

God bless Franklin and Eleanor .May this great nation remember them always..

Love, absolutely, John Barry's music in this!

For me I'll always think President Franklin D Roosevelt not only as one of the Greatest Presidents in History but a World Saviour. It's because of his Extraordinary Leadership that the World not Only have a Powerful Force of Freedom but the World could be Saved and Freed. In Heaven I believed he would be Smiling as he Watches the American Soldiers during the Occupation of Japan working, saving, helping etc with/for the Japanese people making Japan a former enemy becoming a Strong Friend and Ally to the United States as of Today