• Lending Library (Free to Educators)

The Lending Library of the Pare Lorentz Film Center makes audiovisual resources on the Roosevelt era available to educators at no charge. Holdings include archival film footage from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library’s collection, documentaries on the Roosevelts and related topics, newsreels of the 1930s–40s, government film productions, and Hollywood feature films of the period. Most films are available in DVD format. To Browse the Library click HERE

“......he’s my shooter. He photographs America to show what it’s like to our people.”

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Pare Lorentz is celebrated for his great and original contribution to the world of documentary film. An American original—writer, director, and editor—his work is continued by the Pare Lorentz Film Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York. Established through the generosity of Mrs. Elizabeth Meyer Lorentz, and funded by the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute through a generous grant from the New York Community Trust the Center assists educators in communicating the history of the Roosevelt era through documentary film.