Thomas Jefferson is a documentary film directed by Ken Burns, written by Geoffrey C. Ward and narrated by Ossie Davis. It was released in 1997 and the run time is 180 minutes. In this brilliant documentary, Ken Burns makes the portrait of a renaissance man full of contradictions. As the most prominent founding father, Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and proclaimed to the world that all men are created equal, however, he owed over 150 people and never saw fit to free them. We follow him from Monticello to the White House. With this documentary, Ken Burns creates a beautiful time machine that takes us back to 1743.
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