Liberty! (1997)

Dramatic documentary about the birth of the American Republic and the struggle of a loosely connected group of states to become a nation.

Liberty!

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as John Dickinson

as Abigail Adams

as King George III

as Philip Vickers Fithian

as Alexander Hamilton

Peter Donaldson

Peter Donaldson

as George Washington

as James Madison

Edward Herrmann

Edward Herrmann

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman

as Joseph Plumb Martin

as Virginia Officer

Isiah Whitlock Jr.

Isiah Whitlock Jr.

as Luke - Slave

as General John Burgoyne

Mel Johnson Jr.

Mel Johnson Jr.

Paxton Whitehead

Paxton Whitehead

as Horace Walpole

as Thomas Hutchinson

as Thomas Jefferson

as Thomas Paine

as Patrick Henry

as Benjamin Franklin

as Johann Ewald

as Southern Patriot

as American Sergeant

as Baroness von Riedesel

as Ambrose Serle

as General Charles Cornwallis

Roberta Maxwell

Roberta Maxwell

as Mercy Otis Warren

as John Hancock

as Nicholas Cresswell

as Anti-Federalist

Stephen Temperley

Stephen Temperley

as Hector de Crevecoeur

as Eliza Wilkinson

as British Soldier

as Sir George Collier

Austin Pendleton

Austin Pendleton

as Benjamin Rush

John Ellison Conlee

John Ellison Conlee

as Col. Henry Knox

Andreas Beckett

Andreas Beckett

as Lieutenant Colonel Baum

as Melancton Smith

Sebastian Roché

Sebastian Roché

as Marquis de Lafayette

as Noah Webster

as Comte de Rochambeau

as Edmund Burke

as Anti-Federalist

as Benjamin Gilbert

Sam Tsoutsouvas

Sam Tsoutsouvas

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Episodes season 1

1x1

The reluctant revolutionaries: 1763-1774
1x2

Blows must decide: 1774-1776
1x3

The times that try men's souls: 1776-1777
1x4

Oh fatal ambition: 1777-1778
1x5

The world turned upside down: 1778-1783
1x6

Are we to be a nation?: 1783-1788

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