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Ken Burns: Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip DVD

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Get set for an adventure that marked a new era in America! Film-maker Ken Burns presents the hilarious 1903 saga of the first transcontinental automobile trip. On a visionary whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent. His arrival in New York City, after every imaginable breakdown and de... ... More

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Producer: Ken Burns, Dayton Duncan
Executive Producer: Ken Burns
Production Year: 2003
Copyright Year: 2003
Rating: TV-G
Director: Ken Burns
Narrator: Keith David
Actors: Tom Hanks
Writers: Dayton Duncan
Number of Discs: 1
Length: 150 minutes
Audio Format: Stereo

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Tom reviewed Ken Burns: Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip DVD

Great Story

Ken Burns has done it again. This is a great, well told and well documented story. It will hold the attention of the viewer without regard to his interest in American history or early automobiles.

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Tom reviewed Ken Burns: Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip DVD

Well worth your time

Even if you saw the special on PBS it is worth purchasing and watching again. Children will love it.

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George P. reviewed Ken Burns: Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip DVD

A Great Adventure

I had missed this Ken Burns production when it was broadcast in 2004, and am delighted now to see it on DVD. It not only recreates the cross-country drive, on a whim, by Vermont doctor Horatio Nelson Jackson, from San Francisco to NYC, but also incorporates Jacksons photos, taken with a Kodak camera, of towns that he encountered along the way, many inhabited by people who had never seen an automobile. It was an America on the verge of massive transformation, and we share that change. Thanks again, Ken Burns!