American Experience 7

FDR (1): The Center of the World (1882-1921) (1994)

FDR (2): Fear Itself (1922-1933) (1992)

FDR (3): The Grandest Job in the World (1933-1940) (1994)

FDR (4): The Juggler (1940-1945) (1994)

The portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt concludes with his years as preside (1932 until his death in 1945), how he dealt with the Great Depression, and his link with Winston Churchill during World War II.

Telegrams from the Dead (1994)

For 40 years, a new religion called spiritualism affected the nation as no other ever had. Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum, Frederick Douglass, senators, and scientists argued over the discoveries of the spirit world as revealed through mediums. Congress debated whether to provide $40,000 to research the feasibility of using the new wireless technology to reach the other world. But by 1880, as one spectacular fraud after another was revealed, the movement began to fade.