Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2024)

2024

Documentary

8.2 from 10 with total 333 votes

2018-06-08

95 minutes

Fred Rogers used puppets and play to explore complex social issues: race, disability, equality and tragedy, helping form the American concept of childhood. He spoke directly to children and they responded enthusiastically. Yet today, his impact is unclear. Have we lived up to Fred\'s ideal of good neighbors?

Fred Rogers character Self (archive footage)

François Scarborough Clemmons character Self

Yo-Yo Ma character Self

Joe Negri character Self

Kailyn Davis character Self - Kid

David Newell character Self

Joanne Rogers character Self

McColm Cephas Jr. character Self - Kid

Betty Aberlin character Lady Aberlin (archive footage)

Koko character Self (archive footage)

Christa McAuliffe character Self (archive footage)

John O. Pastore character Self (archive footage)

Betty Seamans character Self

Margaret Whitmer character Self

David Bianculli character Self

Bill Clinton character Self (archive footage)

Hillary Clinton character Self (archive footage)

Johnny Costa character Self (archive footage)

Jeff Erlanger character Self (archive footage)

Al Gore character Self (archive footage)

Lyndon B. Johnson character Self (archive footage)

Tom Junod character Self

Robert F. Kennedy character Self (archive footage)

Brian Kilmeade character Self (archive footage)

Max King character Self

Junlei Li character Self - Fred Rogers Center Director

Penny Patterson character Self (archive footage)

Jim Rogers character Self

John Rogers character Self

Tom Snyder character Self (archive footage)

Nick Tallo character Self