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Benjamin Franklin [videorecording (DVD)] / a film by Ken Burns.

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distributed by PBS Distribution, 2022.

DVD 973.3092 F831b Doc

Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.

Scientists -- United States -- Biography.

Inventors -- United States -- Biography.

[videorecording (DVD)] /

2 videodiscs (240 min.) : 5.1 Dolby Surround digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.

Originally broadcast as a 2-part TV program on PBS April 4-5th, 2022.

"Let all men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly."--Container.

Includes English (5.1 Surround) and Spanish (2.0 stereo.) language tracks with optional English (SDH) or Spanish (SDH) subtitles.

English (SDH) subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Join or die (1706-1774) -- An American (1775-1790).

A film by Ken Burns ; a production of Florentine Films and WETA Washington D.C. ; directed by Ken Burns ; written by Dayton Duncan ; produced by Ken Burns and David Schmidt.

Narrator, Peter Coyote ; voiceover actor, Mandy Patinkin.

"Benjamin Franklin explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States. Franklin's 84 years (1706-1790) spanned an epoch of momentous change in science, technology, literature, politics, and government -- fields he himself advanced through lifelong commitments to societal and self-improvement. But Franklin's life was full of contradictions, and his success as a writer, printer, scientist, and statesman came at a cost to the people closest to him. His influence was unmatched in his time, and his impact remains with us today. 'If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten,' he said in Poor Richard's Almanack, 'either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.' Benjamin Franklin did both."--Container.

Documentary television programs.

Biographical television programs.

Biographical documentary films.

Films for the hearing impaired.

Burns, Ken, 1953-

Patinkin, Mandy.

Florentine Films.

WETA-TV (Television station : Washington, D.C.)

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)

PBS Distribution (Firm)

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