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In 1757 Franklin moves to London, sent from Pennsylvania on a mission to allow the colony to tax the Penn family's lands. Franklin arrived as an ardent admirer of the empire as well as a lover of the American colonies (“There's nothing I want more than the prosperity of both,” he says). Seventeen years later, he left—a revolutionary.
Benjamin Franklin is a 2022 two-part American documentary film directed and produced by Ken Burns that first aired on PBS on April 4 and 5, 2022. [1] The film chronicles the life of Benjamin Franklin, a polymath and Founding Father of the United States. The film is narrated by Peter Coyote and Mandy Patinkin stars as the voice
Franklin was a friend to the Jews of 18th-century America, [3] and contributed toward the building of Philadelphia's first permanent synagogue. [6] The Anti-Defamation League noted that the reference to the civilized world giving Palestine back to the Jews was an anachronism , since the modern Zionist movement did not arise until nearly a ...
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The Lives of Benjamin Franklin is a 1974 American television miniseries that chronicles the life of Benjamin Franklin. The series was broadcast by CBS and won five Emmy Awards, including the award for Outstanding Limited Series. [1] Howard Fast won the Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series for the first installment (The Ambassador).
Ben Franklin in Paris, 1964 theatrical musical. The Lives of Benjamin Franklin, 1974 miniseries. Benjamin Franklin (2002 TV series), 2002 PBS documentary series. Benjamin Franklin (film), 2022 Ken Burns documentary. Franklin, a 2024 Apple TV+ miniseries with Michael Douglas as Franklin. It depicts the eight years Franklin spent in France ...
In 1779, Franklin came to disagree with the points he printed in Dissertation and burned all the copies he possessed of the pamphlet but one for historical purposes. . However, since he had already come to give several copies to friends of his, four original copies still
The Trouble with Atheism is an hour-long documentary on atheism, presented by Rod Liddle.It was broadcast on Channel 4 in Britain in December 2006. The documentary focuses on criticising atheism for its perceived similarities to religion, as well as arrogance and intolerance.