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Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece

  • Fred Vigeant
Shown from left to right: Sofia Helin as Crown Princess Martha and Kyle MacLachlan as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

 Courtesy of MASTERPIECE Photographer: Julie Vrabelova

Shown from left to right: Sofia Helin as Crown Princess Martha and Kyle MacLachlan as President Franklin D. Roosevelt

Watch Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece Sunday, April 4 at 9pm on WITF. You can stream WITF TV live on our website and through the PBS Video app on Roku, Apple TV and iPhone and Android smartphones. The program is also available on-demand through the PBS Video app.

A princess steals the heart of the president of the United States in an epic drama based on the World War II relationship of Franklin Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Martha.

Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Sex and the City) stars as Roosevelt, opposite Swedish star Sofia Helin (The Bridge) as the beautiful Martha, who flees the Nazis with her three young children and lives under Roosevelt’s protection.

The eight-part series co-stars Tobias Santelmann as Crown Prince Olav and Harriet Sansom Harris as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Watch Atlantic Crossing Sundays at 9pm beginning Sunday April 4 on WITF.  You can also catch the series on-demand via the PBS Video app.

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