Ken Burns American Lives

Hal Holbrook
Ossie Davis
Julie Harris
Sam Waterson
Ronnie Gilbert
Sally Kellerman
Tom Hanks
Edward Herrmann
Kevin Conway
Adam Arkin
Philip Bosco

Director	<b>Ken Burns</b>; Lynn Novick; Ken Burns
Producer	<b>Ken Burns</b>; Paul Barnes
Writer	Geoffrey C. Ward; Dayton Duncan

"More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than from any other source." - Stephen Ambrose, Historian.

Thomas Jefferson
Revered as the author of the Declaration of Independence, the most sacred document in American history, yet condemned as a lifelong owner of slaves, Thomas Jefferson remains the enigma that is America....By the end of his remarkable life, he had advanced the cause of religion, political an intellectual freedom everywhere and had changed the course of human events.

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of The Corps of Discovery
This extraordinary film tells the remarkable story of the entire Corps of Discovery - not just the two famous Captains, but the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea, who brought along her infant son. Journey with them all, across a breath-taking landscape in an unforgettable experience that explores both the history- and promise - of America.

Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright was the greatest of all American architects. He was an authentic American genius, a man who believed he was destined to redesign the world, creating everything anew. Over the course of his long career, Wright designed over eight hundred buildings, including such revolutionary structures as the Guggenheim Museum, the Johnson Wax Building, Fallingwater, Unity Temple and Taliesin. Wright's buildings and his ideas changed the way we live, work and see the world around us. Frank Lloyd Wright's architectural achievements were often overshadows by the turbulence of his melodramatic life. In ninety-two years, he fathered seven children, married three times and was almost constantly embroiled in scandal. Some hated him, some loved him, but in the end, few could deny that he was the most important architect in America - and perhaps the world.

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story Of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
This film tells the dramatic, little-known story of one of the most compelling friendships in American history. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony were born into a world ruled entirely by men. By the time their lives were over, they had changed for the better the lives of a majority of American citizens.

Mark Twain
This remarkable film tells the story of Twain's extraordinary life - full of rollicking adventure, stupendous success and crushing defeat, hilarious comedy and almost unbearable tragedy. With fascinating interviews of Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others, the story is told primarily through the words of Twain himself, so viewers of all ages can be personally introduced to this compelling yet contradictory genius, who said with some justification, "I am not an American, I am the American."

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
This film recounts the simultaneously inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 1903 - on a visionary whim and a 50-dollar bet - became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent, heralding the future of the "horseless carriage" as a vehicle destined for more than inner-city travel and as a machine that would transform American life.

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise And Fall Of Jack Johnson
Tells the story of the first African American boxer to win the most coveted title in all of sports and his struggle, in and out of the ring, to live his life as a free man. This riveting two-part documentary follows Jack Johnson's remarkable journey from his humble beginnings in Galveston, Texas, as the son of former slaves, to his entry into the brutal world of professional boxing, and his eventual winning of the World Heavyweight Title, an exclusively "white title."