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19 November 2002 (USA) morePlot:
The story of the renowned American polymath. full summaryPlot Keywords:
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Won Primetime Emmy. Another 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
Clever and Entertaining moreCast
(Series Credited cast) | Richard Easton | ... | Benjamin Franklin |
 | Dylan Baker | ... | Franklin as a young man |
 | Colm Feore | ... | Narrator (voice) |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Gerry Bamman | ... | Paul Wentworth |
| Matthew Bentley | ... | Benjamin as a child (1) |
| Michael Bentley | ... | Benjamin as a child (2) |
| Carol Berkin | ... | Herself (interviews) |
| Blair Brown | ... | Jane Franklin Mecom |
| Kathleen Chalfant | ... | Silence Dogood |
| Anthony Cochrane | ... | King George III |
| John Curless | ... | William Strahan |
| Peter Donaldson | ... | John Adams |
| Jennifer Dundas | ... | Catherine Ray |
| Peter Gerety | ... | Joseph Galloway |
 | Daniel Gerroll | ... | Joseph Priestley |
 | Ronald Guttman | ... | Le Comte de Vergennes |
 | Anthony Heald | ... | Jonathan Austin |
| John Christopher Jones | ... | Ephraim Eliot |
 | Simon Jones | ... | Thomas Penn |
| Eddie Korbich | ... | Jared Ruggles |
| Roberta Maxwell | ... | Deborah Read Franklin |
| Jefferson Mays | ... | Elkanah Watson |
| Edmund Morgan | ... | Himself (interviews) |
| Martin Rayner | ... | Robert Whittington |
 | Sebastian Roché | ... | Vicomte |
 | Natacha Roi | ... | Mme. Brillon de Jouy |
| Andrew Seear | ... | British Government Official |
| Josef Sommer | ... | Cotton Mather |
 | Jim True-Frost | ... | William Franklin (as James True-Frost) |
| Michael Zuckerman | ... | Himself (interviews) |
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I cannot speak to the entire series, as I saw only "The Chessmaster". However, I saw enough to get a sense of what the creators were trying to do. In addition to the period images shown with 'Ken Burns effect' and commentaries by historians, there are soundbites from the historical figures (played, of course, by actors). Some of their texts these actors speak are clearly from diary entries or letters, and others are probably built from scholarship.
It is, in my opinion, a very clever way of presenting history to people who are used to modern biopics with their interviews and all those 20th Century War shoes on the History Channel which can interview survivors. Engaging, well done, although undoubtedly too sedate for many.