Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor as the most prominent members of the most important family in history. Through their stories, PBS chronicles the history they helped to shape, from the Square Deal to the New Deal, San Juan Hill to the Western Front, to the founding of the United Nations. Explores the lives and political careers of Theodore Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Episodes five and six of a six-part series which looks at the lives of Abraham and Mary Lincoln. Part five begins with 1863 when it seems the war will never end & episode 6 deals with the end of the Civil War, Lincoln's assassination & the toll it exacted on the emotionally fragile Mary.