Saturday, April 9, 2022

TV Review: Atlantic Crossing (2021). PBS mini-series.

Kyle McLachlan stars as FDR in a fact-based story of the Danish princess (the wife of the crown prince) who escaped with her children from the Nazis, and then carried on a charged friendship with romantic overtones with the President, while trying to influence the Americans to aid the Danish war effort and resistance during World War II.    

It appears that there was some dramatic license in the series, but in general it sticks to facts that have been reported elsewhere about the unusual relationship of the Danish princess to President Roosevelt, and the influence she wielded with him for the benefit of the Danish government in exile.  Recommended.

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