The Roosevelts: An Intimate History The Fire of Life (Season 1, Episode 3)
TV-PG
TV Episode | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The Fire of Life (Season 1, Episode 3)

TV-PG

TV Episode | 115 min | Documentary, Biography, History

T.R. runs for a third term as a Progressive, explores the Amazon and suffers one final grave loss in his twilight years. FDR as President Wilson's Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Eleanor faces life's harsh realities. America in WWI.

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30 cast members

Name	Known for
Peter Coyote Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice) See fewer	Bitter Moon (1992)
Geoffrey C. Ward Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004)
Clay Jenkinson Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Theodore Roosevelt (2022)
Jonathan Alter Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	Alpha House (2013)
Patricia O'Toole Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Doris Kearns Goodwin Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Lincoln (2012)
George F. Will Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	Baseball (1994)
Kathleen Dalton Self - Biographer Self - Biographer See fewer	Theodore Roosevelt (2022)
Candice Millard Self - Writer Self - Writer See fewer	Death by Lightning
David McCullough Self - Historian Self - Historian See fewer	Seabiscuit (2003)
Jon Meacham Self Self See fewer	The Front Runner (2018)
William Jennings Bryan Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Prohibition (1915)
Keith Carradine Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Nashville (1975)
Patricia Clarkson Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley (voice) Margaret 'Daisy' Suckley (voice) See fewer	The Station Agent (2003)
Kevin Conway Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Gettysburg (1993)
Paul Giamatti Theodore Roosevelt (voice) Theodore Roosevelt (voice) See fewer	Sideways (2004)
Ed Harris Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	Appaloosa (2008)
Edward Herrmann Franklin Roosevelt (voice) Franklin Roosevelt (voice) See fewer	Overboard (1987)
Michael Klug Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
John Lithgow Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	The World According to Garp (1982)
Amy Madigan Actress (voice) Actress (voice) See fewer	Field of Dreams (1989)
Pamela Reed Actress (voice) Actress (voice) See fewer	Proof of Life (2000)
Eleanor Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Women in Defense (1941)
Franklin D. Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The President's Mystery (1936)
Theodore Roosevelt Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Simple Gifts (1978)
Meryl Streep Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) Eleanor Roosevelt (voice) See fewer	Out of Africa (1985)
William Howard Taft Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The President's Pardon (1913)
Joanne Tucker Actress (voice) Actress (voice) See fewer	The Report (I) (2019)
Eli Wallach Actor (voice) Actor (voice) See fewer	The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Woodrow Wilson Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)