About
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.”
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
Seasons
Episodes
Season 1
Loyal Subject
Sent by the British to deliver an ultimatum, the inexperienced young officer learns a hard lesson about leadership when his failures in the field inadvertently kick off a world war.
Rebel Commander
As the American colonies make their final break, their newly minted commander-in-chief realizes he's been handed a nearly impossible task in fighting the most powerful armed force in the world with an undisciplined ragtag group of soldiers.
Father of His Country
The Revolution has been won, but as warring nations attack America's borders and uprisings threaten from within, Washington builds the new United States up with his bare hands while enduring treachery and personal attacks.
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