Season 1
Cast & Crew
Episode Guide
A frail, asthmatic young Theodore Roosevelt transforms himself into a champion of the strenuous life, loses one great love and finds another, leads men into battle and then rises like a rocket to become the youngest president in American history at 42. Meanwhile, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, brought up as the pampered only child of adoring parents, follows his older cousin’s career with fascination.
Season 1 FAQs
Ken Burns is the director of Season 1.
The cast of Season 1 includes John Lithgow as James Roosevelt (voice), Peter Coyote as Narrator (voice), Paul Giamatti as Theodore Roosevelt (voice), Meryl Streep as Eleanor Roosevelt (voice), David McCullough as Self - Historian, Edward Herrmann as Franklin Roosevelt (voice), Theodore Roosevelt as Self (archive footage), Doris Kearns Goodwin as Self - Historian, Franklin D. Roosevelt as Self (archive footage), and Eleanor Roosevelt as Self (archive footage).
Episodes run about 1h 56 mins. The total runtime is about 13h 31 mins.
Season 1 was released on 14 Sep 2014.
Season 1 has 7 episodes on Fanbiz.