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The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

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The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

Directed by	Richard Kaplan
Written by	Archibald Macleish
Produced by	Sidney Glazier
Narrated by	Eric Sevareid Archibald Macleish Corinne Alsop Cole (as Mrs. Francis Cole)
Edited by	Miriam Arsham
Distributed by	Allied Artists
Release date	November 8, 1965 (1965-11-08)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story is a 1965 American biographical documentary film directed by Richard Kaplan.

It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1965.^[1]^[2]

The Academy Film Archive preserved The Eleanor Roosevelt Story in 2006.^[3] Bosley Crowther of the New York Times said the film conveyed a great deal of humanity and devotion. It is one of the most moving and encouraging films.^[4]

References[edit]

^ Crowther, Bosley (2007). "NY Times: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2007-11-24. Retrieved 2008-11-09.

^ "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. 4 October 2014. Archived from the original on January 11, 2015. Retrieved May 19, 2019.

^ "Preserved Projects". Academy Film Archive.

^ Crowther, Bosley (1965-11-09). "Documentary Shown at Cinema Rendezvous:MacLeish Has Depicted Growth of Noble Life". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-09-13.

External links[edit]

The Eleanor Roosevelt StoryatIMDb

v t e Eleanor Roosevelt
Chairwoman, Presidential Commission on the Status of Women (1961–1962) 34th First Lady of the United States (1933–1945)
United Nations	United States delegate, United Nations General Assembly (1946–1952) United Nations Commission on Human Rights (1947–1953, Chairperson 1946–1951) Universal Declaration of Human Rights Drafting committee Human Rights Day
First Lady of the United States	"My Day" daily newspaper column, 1935–1962 Co-Chair, Office of Civilian Defense Marian Anderson Lincoln Memorial Concert Tuskegee Airmen flight Arthurdale and Eleanor, West Virginia American Youth Congress National Youth Administration Black Cabinet 1940 Democratic National Convention speech Women in Defense Freedom House
Other events	First Lady of New York Presidential Commission on the Status of Women National Organization for Women Encampment for Citizenship
Life and homes	Val-Kill National Historic Site Val-Kill Industries Campobello home Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness Hyde Park home and gravesite
Legacy	Roosevelt Institute Roosevelt Institute Campus Network Roosevelt Study Center Eleanor Roosevelt Monument Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights Statue at the Franklin Roosevelt Memorial Eleanor Roosevelt College USS Roosevelt Marian Anderson: the Lincoln Memorial Concert (1939 film) Sunrise at Campobello (1958 play, 1960 film) The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965 film) Eleanor and Franklin (1971 biography) Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972 biography) Eleanor and Franklin (1976 film) Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years (1977 film) Backstairs at the White House (1979 miniseries) The Roosevelts (2014 documentary) The First Lady (2022 TV series) FDR (2023 miniseries)
Related	United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights International Bill of Human Rights International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Morgenthau Plan Lorena Hickok
Roosevelt family	Franklin D. Roosevelt (husband presidency 1933–1941 presidency 1941–1945) Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (daughter) James Roosevelt II (son) Elliott Roosevelt (son) Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. (son) John Roosevelt II (son) Eleanor Roosevelt Seagraves (granddaughter) Curtis Roosevelt (grandson) Sara Delano Roosevelt (granddaughter) Franklin Delano Roosevelt III (grandson) John Roosevelt Boettiger (grandson) James Roosevelt III (grandson) Elliott Bulloch Roosevelt (father) Anna Hall Roosevelt (mother) Hall Roosevelt (brother) Theodore Roosevelt Sr. (grandfather) Martha Stewart Bulloch (grandmother) Theodore Roosevelt (uncle presidency) Bamie Roosevelt (aunt) Fala (family dog)

Awards for The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film

1942–1975

The Battle of Midway / Kokoda Front Line! / Moscow Strikes Back / Prelude to War (1942)
Desert Victory (1943)
The Fighting Lady (1944)
The True Glory (1945)
No Award (1946)
Design for Death (1947)
The Secret Land (1948)
Daybreak in Udi (1949)
The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (1950)
Kon-Tiki (1951)
The Sea Around Us (1952)
The Living Desert (1953)
The Vanishing Prairie (1954)
Helen Keller in Her Story (1955)
The Silent World (1956)
Albert Schweitzer (1957)
White Wilderness (1958)
Serengeti Shall Not Die (1959)
The Horse with the Flying Tail (1960)
Sky Above and Mud Beneath (1961)
Black Fox: The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler (1962)
Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel with the World (1963)
World Without Sun (1964)
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965)
The War Game (1966)
The Anderson Platoon (1967)
Journey into Self (1968)
Arthur Rubinstein – The Love of Life (1969)
Woodstock (1970)
The Hellstrom Chronicle (1971)
Marjoe (1972)
The Great American Cowboy (1973)
Hearts and Minds (1974)
The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975)

1976–2000

Harlan County, USA (1976)
Who Are the DeBolts? And Where Did They Get Nineteen Kids? (1977)
Scared Straight! (1978)
Best Boy (1979)
From Mao to Mozart: Isaac Stern in China (1980)
Genocide (1981)
Just Another Missing Kid (1982)
He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin' (1983)
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984)
Broken Rainbow (1985)
Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got / Down and Out in America (1986)
The Ten-Year Lunch (1987)
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
American Dream (1990)
In the Shadow of the Stars (1991)
The Panama Deception (1992)
I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School (1993)
Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1994)
Anne Frank Remembered (1995)
When We Were Kings (1996)
The Long Way Home (1997)
The Last Days (1998)
One Day in September (1999)
Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport (2000)

2001–present

Murder on a Sunday Morning (2001)
Bowling for Columbine (2002)
The Fog of War (2003)
Born into Brothels (2004)
March of the Penguins (2005)
An Inconvenient Truth (2006)
Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
Man on Wire (2008)
The Cove (2009)
Inside Job (2010)
Undefeated (2011)
Searching for Sugar Man (2012)
20 Feet from Stardom (2013)
Citizenfour‎ (2014)
Amy (2015)
O.J.: Made in America (2016)
Icarus (2017)
Free Solo (2018)
American Factory (2019)
My Octopus Teacher (2020)
Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)
Navalny (2022)
20 Days in Mariupol (2023)

v t e National Board of Review Award for Best Film
1932–1950	I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) Topaze (1933) It Happened One Night (1934) The Informer (1935) Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) Night Must Fall (1937) The Citadel (1938) Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939) The Grapes of Wrath (1940) Citizen Kane (1941) In Which We Serve (1942) The Ox-Bow Incident (1943) None But the Lonely Heart (1944) The True Glory (1945) Henry V (1946) Monsieur Verdoux (1947) Paisan (1948) Bicycle Thieves (1949) Sunset Boulevard (1950)
1951–1975	A Place in the Sun (1951) The Quiet Man (1952) Julius Caesar (1953) On the Waterfront (1954) Marty (1955) Around the World in 80 Days (1956) The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) The Old Man and the Sea (1958) The Nun's Story (1959) Sons and Lovers (1960) Question 7 (1961) The Longest Day (1962) Tom Jones (1963) Becket (1964) The Eleanor Roosevelt Story (1965) A Man for All Seasons (1966) Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968) They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969) Patton (1970) Macbeth (1971) Cabaret (1972) The Sting (1973) The Conversation (1974) Barry Lyndon / Nashville (1975)
1976–2000	All the President's Men (1976) The Turning Point (1977) Days of Heaven (1978) Manhattan (1979) Ordinary People (1980) Chariots of Fire / Reds (1981) Gandhi (1982) Betrayal / Terms of Endearment (1983) A Passage to India (1984) The Color Purple (1985) A Room with a View (1986) Empire of the Sun (1987) Mississippi Burning (1988) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) Dances with Wolves (1990) The Silence of the Lambs (1991) Howards End (1992) Schindler's List (1993) Forrest Gump / Pulp Fiction (1994) Sense and Sensibility (1995) Shine (1996) L.A. Confidential (1997) Gods and Monsters (1998) American Beauty (1999) Quills (2000)
2001–present	Moulin Rouge! (2001) The Hours (2002) Mystic River (2003) Finding Neverland (2004) Good Night, and Good Luck (2005) Letters from Iwo Jima (2006) No Country for Old Men (2007) Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Up in the Air (2009) The Social Network (2010) Hugo (2011) Zero Dark Thirty (2012) Her (2013) A Most Violent Year (2014) Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) Manchester by the Sea (2016) The Post (2017) Green Book (2018) The Irishman (2019) Da 5 Bloods (2020) Licorice Pizza (2021) Top Gun: Maverick (2022) Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

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