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Thomas Jefferson

All Episodes 1997

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  • 1997-02-18T05:00:00Z
  • 1h 30m
  • 2h 56m (2 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • American Lives Film Project + 2 more, Florentine Films, WETA
  • Documentary
The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomatic work in France, his two presidential terms, his retirement at Monticello and more.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

1997-02-18T05:00:00Z

1x01 Part 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Part 1

  • 1997-02-18T05:00:00Z1h 27m

Jefferson also made himself into a true renaissance man – a scholar, a philosopher, a diplomat, an aesthete, and an architect. As a young man, he was transformed by the fire of the Enlightenment into America’s most articulate voice for human liberty.

Season Finale

1997-02-19T05:00:00Z

1x02 Part 2

Season Finale

1x02 Part 2

  • 1997-02-19T05:00:00Z1h 29m

Jefferson’s last years were spent founding the University of Virginia and reestablishing his friendship, after decades of estrangement, from his onetime rival John Adams. His influence on and vision for our country reverberates to this day.

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