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John Adams (2008)

John Adams

Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.

John Adams

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as Abigail Adams

Stephen Dillane

Stephen Dillane

as Thomas Jefferson

as Samuel Adams

as George Washington

as Abigail Adams Smith

as Benjamin Franklin

as Young John Quincy Adams

Madeline Taylor

Madeline Taylor

as Young Nabby Adams

as Benjamin Rush

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

as John Quincy Adams

as Thomas Adams

as Colonel William Smith

as Charles Adams

as Sally Smith Adams

as John Hancock

as Robert Treat Paine

as Elbridge Gerry

as Madame Helvétius

as Timothy Pickering

as Bostonian Townsperson as Continental Army Officer

as Robert Goddard

John Bedford Lloyd

John Bedford Lloyd

as Richard Palmes

as Captain Preston

as Jonathan Sewall

as Justice Lynde

Clancy O'Connor

Clancy O'Connor

as Edward Rutledge

as Andrew Holmes

as General Henry Knox

as Captain John Tucker

Jean-Hugues Anglade

Jean-Hugues Anglade

as Comte de Vergennes

as King George III

as Edmund Charles Genet

as William Maclay

as Thomas Pinckney

as John Marshall

Caroline Corrie

Caroline Corrie

as Louisa Catherine Adams

Jason Butler Harner

Jason Butler Harner

as Oliver Wolcott, Jr.

as James McHenry

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Seasons

Season 1

Miniseries

Episodes season 1

1x1

Join or die
1x2

Independence
1x3

Don't tread on me
1x4

Reunion
1x5

Unite or die
1x6

Unnecessary war
1x7

Peacefield

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