The story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call “the greatest man in the world.”
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7.2/10
2020
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Episodes
Cast
Nicholas Rowe
As George Washington
Jeff Daniels
As Self - Narrator
Hainsley Lloyd Bennett
As William Lee
Nia Roberts
As Martha Washington
Joanne Freeman
As Self - Yale University
Alan Taylor
As Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Joseph Ellis
As Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Alexis Coe
As Self - George Washington Biographer
Ed Lengel
As Self - George Washington Biographer
Douglas Bradburn
As Self - President & CEO, Mount Vernon
Nathaniel Philbrick
As Self - National Book Award-Winning Author
Colin Powell
As Self
Annette Gordon-Reed
As Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
H.W. Brands
As Self - University of Texas at Austin
Bill Clinton
As Self
Jon Meacham
As Self
Claudia Prec
As Mary Ball Washington
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