Biographies of Democratic presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Lyndon Johnson. Features declassified information, interviews with family, friends and eyewitnesses, vintage news footage, and excerpts from correspondence and diaries, offers insights into each man's life and Presidency.

Discs 1&2 one-sided, discs 3&4 two-sided. Dual-layer format. Insert includes chapter index. FDR based on: Before the trumpet / Geoffrey C. Ward, A first class temperament / Geofrey C. Ward and No ordinary time Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt : the home front in WWII Doris Kearns Goodwin. Originally broadcast as segments of the television series, The American Experience.

FDR, The center of the world ; Fear itselfPart I. (ca. 113 min.) -- FDR, The juggler Part 2 (ca. 144 min.) / [Pts. I & II] written and produced by David Grubin ; editors, Susan Fanshel -- The Kennedys / produced by Phillip Whitehead, Marilyn Mellowes, David Espar and James A. De Vinney ; co-producer, Carter Harrison ; written by Geoffrey C. Ward, Phillip Whitehead, David Espar and James A. DeVinney (ca. 229 min.) -- LBJ written and produced by David Grubin ; editors, Geof Bartz, Tom Haneke. (ca. 235 min.)