西索（佛瑞絲惠特克 飾）以白官管家身份隨侍在政治權力核心身旁，長達三十四年的時間，歷經七任總統任期。期間，他先後見證越戰爆發、水門案竊聽事件、約翰甘迺迪遭人暗殺與黑人民權運動興起；而他只不過是個二零年代來自於喬治亞州棉花田的黑人窮小子，一個備受種族歧視欺壓、社會最底層的小人物！當他堅守崗位地努力時，原本幸福的家庭卻開始分崩離析；大兒子積極參與各式抗議活動且生命被受威脅，小兒子則因為參加越戰生死不明，太太葛洛莉亞（歐普拉溫芙蕾 飾）終日借酒澆愁。在面對家務與自身良知的同時，西索來到了無法想像的人生十字路口… 究竟他有何能耐，能夠在大時代的洪流中堅定腳步、走出一片天？面對親人與自己立場相衝突對立，他要如何化解這一個超越國家與種族的家庭考驗？

The story of the senior-level preparations for the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944 from the time of Dwight D. Eisenhower's appointment as the Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, to the establishment of the beachhead in Normandy.

He went off to war an unknown soldier and returned a beloved national hero. Often dismissed as a "do-nothing" president and a good-natured bumbler, Dwight D. Eisenhower -- the last American president to be born in the 19th century -- was actually a skillful politician, a tough Cold War warrior, and one of America's most misunderstood and unappreciated presidents. Two-part documentary from American Experience.

An intense examination of the military industrial complex, from President Eisenhower to the modern day.