Biography
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He is the longest-serving U.S. president, and the only one to have served more than two terms. His initial two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America's involvement in World War II.
Awards & recognition
- Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William · 1948
- American Philatelic Society Hall of Fame · 1945
- Albert Medal · 1941
- Time Person of the Year · 1941
- Time Person of the Year · 1934
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- Time Person of the Year · 1932
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honour (Philippines)
- Médaille militaire
- Order of Willem
- Philippine Legion of Honor
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1945 · nominated
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1939 · nominated
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1938 · nominated
- Nobel Peace Prize · 1934 · nominated
Filmography50+ titles
A Web of War
The Eagle and the Lion: Hitler vs Churchill
Apocalypse: The Second World War
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Apocalypse: D-Day
Greatest Events of WWII in Colour
Iran: The Hundred Year War
Race for the White House
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
The Fog of War
The Real Charlie Chaplin
The Untold History of the United States
World War II in Colour
White Light/Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Genocide
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
Storm Front in Mayo
Explained
The Roaring Twenties
Propaganda: Engineering Consent
Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility
Trinity and Beyond: The Atomic Bomb Movie
Crusade in Europe
Money, Explained
FDR
The Bloody Hundredth
Stalin and the Katyn Massacre
The American Führer
Secret Origin: The Story of DC Comics
FDR
To the Shores of Iwo Jima
The World at War
Buck Privates
American Experience
Ku Klux Klan: An American Story
Filmmakers for the Prosecution
The Great Raid
For Me and My Gal
Lola
The Emperor's New Clothes
The Daily Show
The Soul of America
History's Mysteries
Sirius
41
Reagan
10 Things You Don't Know About
Curtiz
Where's My Roy Cohn?
First Ladies