New Ken Burns Documentary Spotlights Roosevelts

Like it or not, for better or for worse, we live in a world largely shaped by Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt.

Now filmmaker Ken Burns has weighed in on the family's story with his latest PBS documentary, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History.  

The result, according to reviewer Damon Root, is a generally positive, but "rich, historically grounded" look at this bigger-than-life American family.

"It was not our intention to make a puff piece," Burns says, "but a complicated, intertwined, integrated narrative about one hell of an American family."

The Roosevelts airs Sunday evening on Prairie Public.  Damon Root reviews the documentary here.