Video Lending Library

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is the home of the Pare Lorentz Film Center . Named for Pare Lorentz, a prominent documentary filmmaker during the Great Depression, the Pare Lorentz Film Center enables the Roosevelt Library to screen, create, and produce videos on the Roosevelt-era. Recently, the Pare Lorentz Film Center has produced new educational videos covering such topics as the attack on Pearl Harbor and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as an educational music video timeline entitled "The Roosevelt Rap."

All of the videos produced by the Pare Lorentz Film Center, as well as many others, are available for teachers to borrow through our new Pare Lorentz video lending library. They range from historical newsreels, Roosevelt-era documentaries, videos about Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, material produced solely by the Pare Lorentz Film Center, and other commercially-available videos.

If you would like to borrow a video from our lending library, simply choose a title from our list of available videos and fax or e-mail the Library a completed video request form .