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Coolidge: Rediscovering An American President

0.0 60 mins Documentary   2023
Our Town Films   PBS  
Director(s): Paul G. Sanderson III

The first major documentary about CALVIN COOLIDGE, the man Ronald Reagan called “one of our most underrated presidents." The year 1923 brought one of the most unusual presidential inaugurations in American history. Vice President Calvin Coolidge was asleep at his childhood home in rural Vermont when the news came in: President Warren Harding was dead. By candlelight, Coolidge’s own father, a notary public, administered the oath of office to the new president. A century later, Coolidge stands as perhaps America’s most misunderstood and unjustly neglected president. A landmark new documentary film changes that

Casts of Coolidge: Rediscovering An American President

Kristi Noem

as Self

Calvin Coolidge

as Self (Archive Footage)

Grace Goodhue Coolidge

as Self (Archive Footage)

George Nash

as Self

Edith Jones

as Self

John Dumville

as Self

Warren G. Harding

as Self (Archive Footage)

Herbert Hoover

as Self (Archive Footage)

Terence Aselford

as Narrator

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