John Huston directs this film giving relevance and life to the hallowed buildings and ground making up Independence National Historical Park. Through vignettes, the people and events are re-created for the present-day visitor. Featuring Eli Wallach as Benjamin Franklin.
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as Benjamin Franklin
DeceasedBorn: December 7, 1915
Died: June 24, 2014
Age at death: 98
as John Adams
DeceasedBorn: July 19, 1924
Died: January 3, 2009
Age at death: 84
as Thomas Jefferson
DeceasedBorn: March 28, 1944
Died: March 23, 2016
Age at death: 71
as Benjamin Rush
AliveBorn: July 30, 1947
Age: 79
Orange, Connecticut, USA
as Narrator
DeceasedBorn: June 18, 1914
Died: August 24, 1998
Age at death: 84
as Tom Paine
DeceasedBorn: June 20, 1931
Died: March 26, 2026
Age at death: 94
as Abigail Adams
DeceasedBorn: September 3, 1925
Died: April 12, 2016
Age at death: 90
as Samuel Adams
DeceasedBorn: June 1, 1915
Died: February 24, 2004
Age at death: 88
as George Washington
DeceasedBorn: September 26, 1927
Died: September 9, 1994
Age at death: 66
as Richard Henry Lee
DeceasedBorn: August 30, 1925
Died: July 24, 2013
Age at death: 87
as George Mason
DeceasedBorn: April 11, 1914
Died: June 10, 1987
Age at death: 73
as John Lansing, Jr.
AliveBirth date not on record.
as Alexander Hamilton
AliveBirth date not on record.
as John Hancock
DeceasedBorn: December 19, 1923
Died: November 19, 1999
Age at death: 75