• Lending Library - Free to Educators

The Pare Lorentz Film Center makes audiovisual resources on the Roosevelt era available to educators at no charge including archival footage from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. To visit the Lending Library click HERE

• Day By Day – FDR’s Calendar

Day by Day, written by Pare Lorentz is a narrative of Franklin D. Roosevelt's daily activities in the White House supplemented with documents, photographs, and diaries from the FDR Presidential Library and Museum. To access Day by Day 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.