Ken Burns: The Roosevelts Season Long Thread

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Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns's latest PBS opus, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, debuts Sunday night at 8 p.m. Eastern, before unspooling its next six installments at the same time every other night of the week. If you'd rather stream, the entirety of the miniseries will be available Monday on PBS.com, PBS member sites, and various PBS digital platforms. (It leaves streaming Friday, Sept. 26, so hurry.) It will also be rerun frequently on PBS and comes out on DVD Tuesday.

Episode one: "Get Action" (airs Sunday)
Galloping across 43 years of American history, the first episode of The Roosevelts covers everything from Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt's birth all the way through the moment when he ascends to the presidency after William McKinley is assassinated. The foremost quality of Roosevelts that sets it apart from many other Burns films is the way that it digs into the emotional and psychological character of its three central figures (Franklin and Eleanor being the other two), and "Get Action" is tremendously good at figuring out what drove Teddy. (The actor Paul Giamatti provides the voice of Teddy in archival readings, and he is very, very good, if unexpected casting.)

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