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Ken Burns: The Roosevelts Season Long Thread
Posted on 9/14/14 at 5:20 pm
Posted on 9/14/14 at 5:20 pm
Should be fantastic. I'm passing up SNF football to watch live.
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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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Posted on 9/14/14 at 5:28 pm to fouldeliverer
So excited for this. I'm finally going to have a chance to enjoy Giamatti as well it seems. I think he is a very good actor, but I have a visceral reaction to watching him that makes me unable to watch him.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 7:45 pm to fouldeliverer
I'm watching too.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 9:32 pm to Thurber
I never new FDR and Elanor were kissing cousins.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 9:54 pm to Badman
Teddy is a BAMF. A beer with him would be highly enjoyed.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 10:29 pm to Fox McLeod
To his credit Teddy was actually a fairly modest fellow. Anything he accomplished in life he always stated was no more then what any other man could do and quite a few do better then he had. God I wish he was still around.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 10:49 pm to Fox McLeod
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Teddy is a BAMF
His son was more badass.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 10:53 pm to fouldeliverer
Ended up watching it. Pretty good overall.
Posted on 9/14/14 at 11:06 pm to fouldeliverer
great thread and show - I would love to try to catch up if I have PBS on demand or some way to watch it (I fear I don't though) 
Posted on 9/15/14 at 12:03 am to Badman
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I never new FDR and Elanor were kissing cousins.
gotta keep the bloodline pure, right?
Posted on 9/15/14 at 5:51 am to fouldeliverer
I was not aware of the fact that Teddy's first wife and his mother died on the same day in the same house right after his daughter was born. Damn that's rough.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 10:47 am to fouldeliverer
thanks for the heads up on this. seems great.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 1:27 pm to Badman
Yup, franklin d. Roosevelt married his cousin
Posted on 9/15/14 at 4:52 pm to SirWinston
I believe that PBS will have it available on their website until the end of September.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 5:04 pm to RabidTiger
So Teddy was closer related to Eleanor than Franklin?
Posted on 9/15/14 at 6:32 pm to LSUlefty
PBS has an app on all the streami g devices. Ep 1 was great. People are saying this could be Burns' best, which is saying a lot.
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:09 pm to LSUlefty
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So Teddy was closer related to Eleanor than Franklin?
this shite is gross, How did they elect these incest frickers into the white house?
Posted on 9/15/14 at 8:17 pm to Thurber
quote:Franklin was gay and so was Elinor. It was marriage of convenience.
Yup, franklin d. Roosevelt married his cousin
Posted on 9/16/14 at 12:27 am to fouldeliverer
TR and FDR were kinda douchebags.
I have a little crush on Alice.
I have a little crush on Alice.
Posted on 9/16/14 at 12:31 am to La Place Mike
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Franklin was gay and so was Elinor. It was marriage of convenience.
Eleanor, probably. FDR, doubtful. He had multiple affairs with women during his marriage.
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