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📊 Series Specifications
Network PBS
Episode Runtime ~90 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 2
Original Language EN
Thomas Jefferson (1997)
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Ended Series Status:
This series has concluded and all seasons are available for tracking.
Synopsis
The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomatic work in France, his two presidential terms, his retirement at Monticello and more.
Seasons & Episodes
Season 1 (Miniseries)
2 Episodes E1 Part 1
Jefferson also made himself into a true renaissance man – a scholar, a philosopher, a diplomat, an aesthete, and an architect. As a young man, he was transformed by the fire of the Enlightenment into America’s most articulate voice for human liberty.
E2 Part 2
Jefferson’s last years were spent founding the University of Virginia and reestablishing his friendship, after decades of estrangement, from his onetime rival John Adams. His influence on and vision for our country reverberates to this day.