In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.
Directed byKen Burns
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 47m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- October 6, 2003
american lives ii film projectFeaturing
Cast & crew
Tom Hanks
Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)
Keith David
Narrator (voice)
Adam Arkin
Other Voices (voice)
Philip Bosco
Other Voices (voice)
John Cullum
Other Voices (voice)
Amy Madigan
Other Voices (voice)
Eli Wallach
Other Voices (voice)
- Directed by
- Ken Burns
- Written by
- Dayton Duncan
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