Benjamin Franklin
20021 Season90m episodes6.7
Documentary
- Runtime
- 90m episodes
- Genre
- Documentary
- Certificate
- TV-PG
- Origin
- US
About
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.
Where to watch
With ads
Availability from JustWatch via TMDB.
Details
- Director
- Ellen Giffard, Muffie Meyer
- Writing
- Ronald Blumer
- Status
- Ended
- First aired
- Nov 19, 2002
- Network
- PBS
- Studio
- Lithuanian Film Studio, Middlemarch Films
Time to finish
5 hrs
3 episodes. About 1 week at an hour a night.
Cast
Colm Feore
narrator
Richard Easton
Benjamin Franklin
Dylan Baker
Benjamin Franklin
David Adkins
John Jay
Gerry Bamman
Paul Wentworth
Blair Brown
Jane Mecom
Anthony Cochrane
George
Peter Donaldson
John Adams
Ronald Guttman
Le Comte de Vergennes
Anthony Heald
Jonathan Austin
Jefferson Mays
Elkanah Watson
Brian Murray
Viscount Stormont
Martin Rayner
Robert Whittington
Natacha Roi
Mme. Britton de Jouy
Sebastian Roché
French Aristocrat
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