The Franklin D. Roosevelt

Presidential Library and Museum

presents a Constitution Day

film screening of

A MORE PERFECT UNION

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

at 2:00 p.m.

Henry A. Wallace Center at the

FDR Presidential Library and Home

CLICK HERE to register

HYDE PARK, NY -- The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum will commemorate Constitution Day with a film screening of A MORE PERFECT UNION on Tuesday, September 17, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. The program will be held in the Henry A. Wallace Center at the FDR Presidential Library and Home. This is a free public event, but registration is required. CLICK HERE to register

Film Synopsis:

America, 1786. Ten years have passed since the signing of the Declaration of Independence. But America's hopes for a united country are dangerously threatened. England wages a new war of unfair trade and tariffs. Fragmented states continually bicker over currencies, trade, taxations. America is a powder keg ready to explode.

But a handful of brilliant courageous men, James Madison, George Washington, and Benjamin Franklin, lead a three-year diplomatic battle that culminates in Philadelphia. There they created a new form of government -- one that has since become the standard of freedom and democracy for the rest of the world.

A MORE PERFECT UNION was shot on location at Independence Hall and other historic locations in Virginia, and features a seasoned cast of motion picture professionals.

The United States Constitution (completed and ratified) launched the United States on its voyage. For two centuries this unparalleled ship of democracy has sailed forth as an enduring vessel of freedom charting a course for the governments of every free nation in the world.