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.”
Cast
- Nicholas Rowe as George Washington
- Jeff Daniels as Self - Narrator
- Hainsley Lloyd Bennett as William Lee
- Nia Roberts as Martha Washington
- Joanne Freeman as Self - Yale University
- Alan Taylor as Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
- Joseph Ellis as Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
- Alexis Coe as Self - George Washington Biographer
- Ed Lengel as Self - George Washington Biographer
- Douglas Bradburn as Self - President & CEO, Mount Vernon