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.”

Genres

Cast

Nicholas Rowe

George Washington

Jeff Daniels

Self - Narrator

Hainsley Lloyd Bennett

William Lee

Nia Roberts

Martha Washington

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

Claudia Prec

Mary Ball Washington