Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) on Netflix

Plot summary

Fred Rogers spent more than thirty years speaking to young children through television, and the documentary follows how he arrived there. Interviews with his wife, his sons, and the colleagues and friends who worked beside him describe a seminary student who disliked what the young medium was giving children and chose to make something better. Mister Rogers' Neighborhood gave him puppets and a quiet way to raise subjects other children's programs avoided: the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, race relations, the Challenger explosion, divorce. Rogers, a pianist as well, drew the show's themes of empathy and acceptance from his faith and from insecurities he carried out of his own childhood. Archival recordings fill out the portrait.