Washington

Plot Summary

The story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call “the greatest man in the world.”

Top Cast

Nicholas Rowe George Washington

Jeff Daniels Self - Narrator

Hainsley Lloyd Bennett William Lee

Nia Roberts Martha Washington

Joanne Freeman Self - Yale University