FDR

David McCullough

Narrator

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Eleanor Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

James Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Geoffrey C. Ward

Self — Biographer

Curtis Roosevelt

Self — Grandson

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Self — Biographer

Blanche Wiesen Cook

Self — Eleanor Roosevelt Biographer

Bronson Chanler

Self — Hudson Valley Neighbor

Edna Gurewitsch

Self — Roosevelt Family Friend

Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves

Self — Granddaughter

Grenville Clark

Self (archive footage)

James M. Cox

Self (archive footage)

Hugh Gallagher

Self — Biographer

Elmer Loftin

Self — Warm Springs Resident

Robert Fulton Copeland

Self — Warm Springs Resident

H. Stuart Raper

Self — Medical Director, Warm Springs Foundation

Janice Howe Raper

Self — Physical Therapist

Ben C. Fowler

Self — Warm Springs Resident

Alice Converse

Self — Physical Therapist

David Ginsburg

Self — FDR Administration

Alonzo Fields

Self — White House Butler

Herbert Hoover

Self (archive footage)

Thomas J. Walsh

Self (archive footage)

John Nance Garner

Self (archive footage)

Eli Ginzberg

Self — FDR Administration

William Leuchtenburg

Self — Historian

Chalmers Roberts

Self — Journalist

Lou Henry Hoover

Self (archive footage)

Robert R. Nathan

Self — FDR Administration

Alistair Cooke

Self — Journalist

Dick Powell

Self (archive footage)

Charles Coughlin

Self (archive footage)

Henry P. Fletcher

Self (archive footage)

Milton Lipson

Self — Secret Service

Walter Trohan

Self — Journalist

Dorothy Height

Self — National Council of Negro Women

Ann Cottrell Free

Self — Journalist

Charles Evans Hughes

Self (archive footage)

Frederick Van Nuys

Self (archive footage)

Samuel B. Pettengill

Self (archive footage)

Arthur H. Vandenberg

Self (archive footage)

Adolf Hitler

Self (archive footage)

Benito Mussolini

Self (archive footage)

Emperor Hirohito of Japan

Self (archive footage)

Robert Dallek

Self — Historian

Trude Lash

Self — Roosevelt Family Friend

Marian Anderson

Self (archive footage)

King George VI of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Self (archive footage)

Cordell Hull

Self (archive footage)

Te Ata

Self (archive footage)

Charles A. Lindbergh

Self (archive footage)

Winston Churchill

Self (archive footage)

Mary Soames

Self — Winston Churchill's Daughter

George Elsey

Self — Lieutenant, U.S. Naval Reserve

Joseph Stalin

Self (archive footage)

Howard G. Bruenn

Self — Cardiologist

Eleanor Roosevelt II

Self — Niece

Henry A. Wallace

Self (archive footage)

Harry S. Truman

Self (archive footage)

Harlan Fiske Stone

Self (archive footage)