Rating:
7.8/10 by 9 users
Liberty! (1997)
Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.
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Release Date:
Sun, Nov 23, 1997
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Country: US
Language: En
Runtime: 60
Victor Garber
John Dickinson
Donna Murphy
Abigail Adams
Alex Jennings
King George III
Anthony Heald
Philip Vickers Fithian
Colm Feore
Alexander Hamilton
Peter Donaldson
John Adams
Stephen Lang
George Washington
Jefferson Mays
James Madison
Edward Herrmann
Narrator
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Joseph Plumb Martin
Jane Adams
Sara Scott
Jake Weber
Virginia Officer
Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
Luke - Slave
Terrence Mann
General John Burgoyne
Mel Johnson Jr.
Jehu Grant
Paxton Whitehead
Horace Walpole
Remak Ramsay
Thomas Hutchinson
Forrest Sawyer
Self - Host
Campbell Scott
Thomas Jefferson
Roger Rees
Thomas Paine
James Naughton
Patrick Henry
Philip Bosco
Benjamin Franklin
Joris Stuyck
Johann Ewald
Jamison Selby
Southern Patriot
Steve Zahn
American Sergeant
Francie Swift
Baroness von Riedesel
Simon Jones
Ambrose Serle
Daniel Gerroll
General Charles Cornwallis
Roberta Maxwell
Mercy Otis Warren
Byron Jennings
John Hancock
JD Cullum
Nicholas Cresswell
Neil Maffin
Anti-Federalist
Stephen Temperley
Hector de Crevecoeur
Kali Rocha
Eliza Wilkinson
Mark Letheren
British Soldier
Douglas Weston
Sir George Collier
Austin Pendleton
Benjamin Rush
John Ellison Conlee
Col. Henry Knox
Andreas Beckett
Lieutenant Colonel Baum
David Bishins
Melancton Smith
Sebastian Roché
Marquis de Lafayette
Rob Campbell
Noah Webster
Ronald Guttman
Comte de Rochambeau
David Yelland
Edmund Burke
Mark Nelson
Loyalist
James Murtaugh
Anti-Federalist
Murphy Guyer
Benjamin Gilbert
Sam Tsoutsouvas
Hugh Ledlie
Season 1:
In 1763, the capitol city of America is London, George Washington is lobbying for a post in the British army, and no one thinks of Boston harbor when they hear talk of tea parties. In a dozen years, the colonies are on the brink of rebellion. What happens to bring this country so quickly near war with England?
A total break from Great Britain remains hard for Americans to imagine, even after shots are fired at Lexington and Concord. Words push matters "Over the Edge" in 1776. Common Sense argues that it is the natural right of men to govern themselves. The Declaration of Independence declares this same idea a "self-evident" truth. For Americans, there is no looking back. There will be war with England.
Days after the Declaration of Independence is signed, a British force arrives in New York harbor. Washington and his troops are driven to New Jersey. With only a few days of enlistment left for many of his volunteers, a desperate Washington leads his army quietly across the Delaware River on the day after Christmas, 1776, to mount a surprise attack on a sleeping garrison in Trenton.
The "united" states remain in dire need of funds and military support. Congress dispatches Benjamin Franklin to France in hopes of creating an alliance which will provide both. Meanwhile, a British army marches down the Hudson River trying to cut off New England from the other colonies. The British are crushed by Americans at Saratoga. The French enter the conflict on the American side.
The British hope to exploit the issue of slavery and to enlist the support of loyalists in the south. They fail. After a series of brutal engagements, the British army heads for Virginia, only to be trapped by the miraculous convergence of Washington's army and the French fleet at Yorktown. The end of the war is at hand.
Peace comes to the United States, but governing the world's newest republic is no simple task. Congress is ineffectual and individual states act like sovereign nations. By the time the Constitutional Convention convenes in 1787, many wonder if the country can survive. The long ratification process helps define what sort of nation the United States is to be—a process that continues to this day.
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