Seen today, this 1965 Academy Award-winning documentary seems quaint with its classic straight-ahead blend of archival footage, lyrical narration, stately score and interviews. Fans of such contemporary genre-expanding and unconventional docs as Roger and Me may find it slow-going. But it does do its subject, the "First Lady of the World," Eleanor Roosevelt, proud. Poet Archibald MacLeish wrote and co-narrates with Eric Severeid. Hillary Clinton--who else--graciously contributes a newly-filmed prologue in which she calls Eleanor "a woman for all times and all people, who gave voice to the voiceless and hope for the hopeless." Recommended. (K. Lee Benson)
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
(Kino, 800-562-3330, 90 min., not rated) Vol. 12, Issue 3
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
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