Washington
Overview
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.”
Seasons & Episodes
Top Cast
Nicholas Rowe
George Washington
Jeff Daniels
Self - Narrator
Hainsley Lloyd Bennett
William Lee
Nia Roberts
Martha Washington
Joanne Freeman
Self - Yale University
Alan Taylor
Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Joseph Ellis
Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Alexis Coe
Self - George Washington Biographer
Ed Lengel
Self - George Washington Biographer
Douglas Bradburn
Self - President & CEO, Mount Vernon
Nathaniel Philbrick
Self - National Book Award-Winning Author
Colin Powell
Self
Annette Gordon-Reed
Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
H.W. Brands
Self - University of Texas at Austin
Bill Clinton
Self
Jon Meacham
Self
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