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- History
- Feb 16, 2020
- History
- Feb 16, 2020
Summary Jeff Daniels narrates the three-night, six-hour documentary miniseries about George Washington which includes dramatic recreations and interviews with historians as well as former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
- History
- Feb 16, 2020
- History
- Feb 16, 2020
Washington
Season 1
Season Premiere: Feb 16, 2020
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Summary Jeff Daniels narrates the three-night, six-hour documentary miniseries about George Washington which includes dramatic recreations and interviews with historians as well as former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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The cast here is top notch, particularly Nicholas Rowe as George Washington and Nia Roberts as his wife, Martha Custis Washington. The commentary provided by political luminaries like Clinton and Powell and journalist John Avlon is welcome and insightful, and the film wisely relies on historians who are at the top of their game, including Joseph J. Ellis, Annette Gordon-Reed, Jon Meacham and Alan Taylor. ... My main criticism is that there are some important details about the man that are left out — his foreign policy views are given short shrift, and important figures like Oney Judge, his runaway slave who he tried to recapture, are overlooked entirely — but for the most part, it is successful.
The first episode of Washington, despite being almost 90 minutes without commercials, moves along nicely, the battle scenes are done reasonably well and Rowe does a good job filling the shoes of the great George Washington.
Rowe simply does not look like Washingtone, and for a miniseries that seeks to render him in fully human form, that is a drawback. A fatal one? Hardly, but a distracting one. ... Meanwhile, Kearns Goodwin is missing entirely. ... Yet get past this and her "Washington '' works well, as levelheaded, cleanly-told history, absent hagiography or unnecessary clutter.
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