Benjamin Franklin (2022)
4.2 of 5 from 45 ratings
4h 0min
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- Synopsis:
Benjamin Franklin explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States. Franklin's 84 years (1706-1790) spanned an epoch of momentous change in science, technology, literature, politics, and government-fields he himself advanced through a lifelong commitment to societal and self- improvement. But Franklin's life was full of contradictions, and his success as a writer, printer, scientist, and statesman came at a cost to the people closest to him. His influence was unmatched in his time, and his impact remains with us today. "If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten", he said in Poor Richard's Almanack, "either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing". Benjamin Franklin did both. - Actors:
- Mandy Patinkin, Josh Lucas, Liam Neeson, Walter Isaacson, H.W. Brands, Joseph Ellis, Christopher L. Brown, Stacy Schiff, Joyce Chaplin, Ellen Cohn, Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Clay Jenkinson, Bernard Bailyn, Sheila Kemp, Philip Dray, Gordon Wood, Carolyn McCormick, Craig Mellish, Dave Quay, Paul Giamatti
- Directors:
- Ken Burns
- Producers:
- Ken Burns, David P. Schmidt
- Narrated By:
- Peter Coyote
- Writers:
- Dayton Duncan
- Studio:
- Uplands Media
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest
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