The best Franklin D. Roosevelt’s movies

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

30/01/1882- 12/04/1945
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The Great Raid

The Great Raid
6.6/10
As World War II rages, the elite Sixth Ranger Battalion is given a mission of heroic proportions: push 30 miles behind enemy lines and liberate over 500 American prisoners of war.

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring Twenties
7.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaThriller
  • Release: 28/10/1939
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
After World War I, Armistice Lloyd Hart goes back to practice law, former saloon keeper George Hally turns to bootlegging, and out-of-work Eddie Bartlett becomes a cab driver. Eddie builds a fleet of cabs through delivery of bootleg liquor and hires Lloyd as his lawyer. George becomes Eddie's partner and the rackets flourish until love and rivalry interfere.

The Fog of War

The Fog of War
8.1/10
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert McNamara, The Fog of War depicts his life, from working as a WWII whiz-kid military officer, to being the Ford Motor Company's president, to managing the Vietnam War as defense secretary for presidents Kennedy and Johnson.

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
7.1/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 06/08/1975
  • Character: (archive footage)
Period music, film clips and newsreel footage combined into a visual exploration of the American entertainment industry during the Great Depression.

Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1

Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1
8.8/10
In the last 250 years, free-market ideology has played a central role in the development of the logic and rhetoric that have influenced the daily life of populations throughout the Western world. It was cornered for a few decades during the twentieth century in favor of a social economy for the public interest, and then returned to the limelight in the last thirty years of the century to dominate the logics that drive world economies, doing the favor of the elites at the expense of 99%. Through the testimony of six people informed about the facts, Lasciateci Fare Vol. 1 offers a historical and ideological perspective through which to identify the fundamental problems of the economic mechanism on which Western societies are based.

Buck Privates

Buck Privates
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyMusic
  • Release: 31/01/1941
  • Character: President Roosevelt (archive footage) (uncredited)
Petty con artists Slicker Smith and Herbie Brown mistakenly join the Army evading the cops. The cop chasing them winds up as their drill instructor. A rich young man and his former working class chauffeur are not only in the same unit, they're vying for a pretty girl who seems attracted to both.

Sirius

Sirius
6.2/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 23/04/2013
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Dr. Steven Greer—an Emergency room doctor turned UFO researcher—discloses top secret information about classified energy and propulsion techniques, investigates new technology and sheds light on criminal and murderous suppression. He does so by accumulating over 100 Government, military and Intelligence-community witnesses who testify on record about the cover-up.

For Me and My Gal

For Me and My Gal
7/10
  • Genre: MusicRomanceWar
  • Release: 21/10/1942
  • Character: Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
Two vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.

Show-Business at War

Show-Business at War
7/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 21/05/1943
  • Character: Self
A multi-studio effort to show the newsreel audience the progress of the Hollywood war effort.

The Lost Film of Nuremberg

The Lost Film of Nuremberg
7.7/10
In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics

Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
7.6/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 09/11/2010
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
A look at the history of the comic book publication that launched such legendary characters as Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman.

Laboratory Greece

Laboratory Greece
9/10
A journey through Greece and Europe’s past and recent history: from the Second World War to the current crisis. It is a historical documentary, a look into many stories. «If Democracy can be destroyed in Greece, it can be destroyed throughout Europe» Paul Craig Roberts

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
8.2/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryWar
  • Release: 06/08/2007
  • Character: Himself (archive footage)
Steven Okazaki presents a deeply moving look at the painful legacy of the first -- and hopefully last -- uses of thermonuclear weapons in war. Featuring interviews with fourteen atomic bomb survivors - many who have never spoken publicly before - and four Americans intimately involved in the bombings, White Light/Black Rain provides a detailed exploration of the bombings and their aftermath.

Genocide

Genocide
7.3/10
  • Genre: DocumentaryDramaHistory
  • Release: 14/03/1982
  • Character: Self (archive footage) (as Franklin Deleno Roosevelt)
The mass murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime is chronicled, with a warning that anti-Semitism is on the rise and the events of the Holocaust could happen again. The history of European Jewish culture and events before and during the Holocaust are seen in newsreels, photographs, and animated segments. The words of the victims of the era are read, and footage from the liberation os a concentration camp is shown.

Okay for Sound

Okay for Sound
6.1/10
This short was released in connection with the 20th anniversary of Warner Brothers' first exhibition of the Vitaphone sound-on-film process on 6 August 1926. The film highlights Thomas A. Edison and Alexander Graham Bell's efforts that contributed to sound movies and acknowledges the work of Lee De Forest. Brief excerpts from the August 1926 exhibition follow. Clips are then shown from a number of Warner Brothers features, four from the 1920s, the remainder from 1946/47.

The Soul of America

The Soul of America
7.3/10
  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release: 22/10/2020
  • Character: Self (archive footage)
Writer, journalist, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and presidential biographer John Meacham offers his timely and invaluable insights into the country’s current political and historical moment by examining its past. Based on his 2018 bestseller of the same name.

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre

Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
8/10
The Katyn massacre, carried out by the Soviet NKVD in 1940, was only one of many unspeakable crimes committed by Stalin's ruthless executioners over three decades. The mass murder of thousands of Polish officers was part of a relentless purge, the secrets and details of which have only recently been partially revealed.

The Navy Comes Through

The Navy Comes Through
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 30/10/1942
  • Character: Himself (Voice)
A U.S. Navy crew aboard a merchant marine ship battle Nazis.

JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick

JFK to 9/11: Everything is a Rich Man's Trick
The real reasons and orchestrators behind Hitler, to an incredible theory of the JFK assassination, all the way to 9/11 and the current age of the terrorist. Taken from an historical perspective starting around World War 1 leading to present day.

A War in Hollywood

A War in Hollywood
8.4/10
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) caused a great impression on the lives of most of the American artists of that era, so many movies were made in Hollywood about it. The final defeat of the Spanish Republic left an open wound in the hearts of those who sympathized with its cause. The eventful life of screenwriter Alvah Bessie (1904-1985), one of the Hollywood Ten, serves to analyze this sadness, the tragedy of Spain and its consequences.

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