Filmography › Doris Kearns Goodwin
All the books by Doris Kearns Goodwin adapted to cinema and television
Baseball traverses the quest for racial justice, the clash between labor and management, the immigrant experience, the transformation of popular culture, and the enduring appeal of the national pastime.
A documentary that intricately intertwines the stories of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt—three individuals from one of the most prominent and influential families in American politics.
The series tells the true story of America’s iconic 16th president. Across three two-hour episodes, the mini-series immerses viewers into the world and story of Abe before Lincoln. A young man looking to make his mark, who grows into the man who puts himself in position to lead the young United States through its’ greatest crisis.
The series explores the breadth and depth of one of history’s most interesting men: Theodore Roosvelt. Cowboy, soldier, statesman, conservationist, adventurer, reformer and author who suffered profound personal loss and became at age 42 the youngest president of the United States, having a monumental impact that is still felt today.
In January 1865, United States President Abraham Lincoln expects the Civil War to end soon, with the defeat of the Confederate States. He is concerned that his 1863 Emancipation Proclamation may be discarded by the courts after the war and that the proposed Thirteenth Amendment will be defeated by the returning slave states.
A mini-series profiling the Kennedy family ran three nights. It chronicles 55 years in the lives of the family opening in 1906 with the marriage of Joseph P. Kennedy, a Harvard graduate, to Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of Boston’s Mayor.