Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
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Thomas Jefferson

8.0 / 10
1997
1 season
2 episodes
Documentary

The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomatic work in France, his two presidential terms, his retirement at Monticello and more.

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  • Part 1

    1.Part 1

    18-02-199787m

    Jefferson also made himself into a true renaissance man – a scholar, a philosopher, a diplomat, an aesthete, and an architect. As a young man, he was transformed by the fire of the...

  • Part 2

    2.Part 2

    19-02-199785m

    Jefferson’s last years were spent founding the University of Virginia and reestablishing his friendship, after decades of estrangement, from his onetime rival John Adams. His influ...

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