Washington

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.”

Seasons & Episodes

Details

Cast

Nicholas Rowe

George Washington

Jeff Daniels

Self - Narrator

Hainsley Lloyd Bennett

William Lee

Nia Roberts

Martha Washington

Joanne Freeman

Self - Yale University

Alan Taylor

Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian

Joseph Ellis

Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian

Alexis Coe

Self - George Washington Biographer

Ed Lengel

Self - George Washington Biographer

Douglas Bradburn

Self - President & CEO, Mount Vernon

Nathaniel Philbrick

Self - National Book Award-Winning Author

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