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Episode Guide
Thomas Jefferson
Series: Ken Burns American Stories
Series Progress: Episode 9 of 1464% Completed
Synopsis
Ossie Davis narrates this two-part 1997 biography of Thomas Jefferson, the statesman---and slaveholder---who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson "embodied contradictions common to the country whose independence it fell to him to proclaim," Davis says, and Burns enlists an impressive array of historians to plumb both Jefferson's genius and his "dark side" (as the University of Virginia's Andrew Burstein puts it). Part 1 traces Jefferson's first 45 years and spends considerable time on the Declaration of Independence. "He gave us our creed," notes George Will. Sam Waterston provides Jefferson's voice.
📊 Series Binge Profile
Total Content Density: 21 hours 30 minutes (14 episodes)
Intensity Rating: Moderate Burn - Story-dense episodes. Best spaced out over a week.
Binge Milestones
1 episode/day: 14 days
3 episodes/day: 5 days
5 episodes/day: 3 days
Episodes (14)
- S01E01 - The Statue of Liberty
- S01E10 - Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
- S01E11 - Thomas Hart Benton
- S01E12 - The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
- S01E13 - Huey Long
- S01E17 - The Congress
- S01E02 - Frank Lloyd Wright
- S01E03 - Frank Lloyd Wright
- S01E04 - Thomas Jefferson Viewing
- S01E05 - Thomas Jefferson
- S01E06 - Brooklyn Bridge
- S01E07 - Mark Twain
- S01E08 - Mark Twain
- S02E01 - Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery