30 minutes
7/4/1976
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.
Eli Wallach
as Benjamin Franklin
Pat Hingle
as John Adams
Ken Howard
as Thomas Jefferson
William Atherton
as Benjamin Rush
E.G. Marshall
as Narrator
James Tolkan
as Tom Paine
Anne Jackson
as Abigail Adams
John Randolph
as Samuel Adams
Patrick O'Neal
as George Washington
Donald Symington
as Richard Henry Lee
Tom Spratley
as George Mason
John Favorite
as John Lansing, Jr.
Scott Mulhern
as Alexander Hamilton
Paul Sparer
as John Hancock