Winner of a Golden Globe and 11 Emmy awards, βEleanor and Franklinβ stars Edward Herrmann and Jane Alexander. The movie chronologically orders the first four decades of the lives of Eleanor and Franklin. You will get to experience the various conflicts that loomed, whether it was Franklinβs overbearing mother or Eleanorβs discovery of FDRβs affair with Lucy Mercer, Eleanor went through many trials and tribulations. After Franklin is stricken with Polio in 1921, she emerges as an influential public figure.