Benjamin Franklin
2002
📺 1 Season
🎬 3 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 90 min/episode
Documentary
An epic yarn spanning most of the 18th century, the series follows Franklin's career from humble beginnings in Boston to international superstardom: first as a scientist and revolutionary, and then as a founding father and America's first diplomat to France.
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Seasons
Season 1
Part 1: “Let the Experiment Be Made,” charts Franklin's first 47 years (he was born in 1706), a period that saw the birth of the Enlightenment. Franklin took it to heart, writing aphorisms based on it in his “Poor Richard's Almanack” and making life easier for his fellow Philadelphians by thinking up such things as public libraries and a volunteer fire department. Then there was electricity. Richard Easton plays Franklin (Dylan Baker plays a younger Franklin).
Cast
Crew
Director
Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer
Writer
Ronald Blumer
Producer
Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer, Robertas Urbonas
Network
PBS
Production
Lithuanian Film Studio, Middlemarch Films
Keywords
historical documentarybiographical documentary