The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is releasing the first of five short films on civil rights. Titled “Black Americans, Civil Rights, and the Roosevelts, 1932-1962,” the series is based on interviews with experts and explores the Roosevelts’ impact on civil rights for Black Americans during this period.
Discover the fastest vehicles in the world skating across the surface of the Hudson River in this episode of the Roosevelt Story, directed and produced by Drake Creative.
In September, Drake Creative produced the live broadcast of the Four Freedoms awards for Roosevelt Institute, from the FDR Presidential Library.
8 Second Miracle did not happen quickly at all! In fact, it took years. Dean wrote the original sketch – about the 5 second rule and eating soup off the floor – at UCB NY pre-pandemic and pretty much forgot about it.
A powerful and important special exhibit opens at the FDR Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, NY: BLACK AMERICANS, CIVIL RIGHTS, AND THE ROOSEVELTS, 1932-1962.
Take a minute to watch this short and powerful program about civil rights pioneer and opera singer Marian Anderson. In this program we are lucky to have original video and audio from her performances through the of archival resource, Sherman Grinberg Film Library.
For Women’s History Month, we produced a conversation with two of the National Park Service’s leading experts on the Women’s Rights Movement in a conversation with FDR Presidential Library Director Paul Sparrow to discuss the struggle for women’s equality and suffrage.
Most of the Tuskegee Airmen just wanted to become pilots. They didn’t join the military to become symbols of freedom, and yet their story shines a light on injustice met with dignity and perseverance. Our new animated short tells their story.
Harvey Kaye, Emeritus Professor of Democracy at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, examines how the Four Freedoms came to define America’s purpose, promise, and responsibility to the world.
Jeff Urbin, FDR Presidential Library’s education specialist, Dean Temple and Alex Tuller attended the Soho International Film Festival this weekend where our animated documentary Everyone Has the Right showed on the two-story tall movie screen as part of the Shorts Program D: SPRING STREET SERIES at the historic Village East Theater in New York City.
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