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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Film / 2003

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Directed by Ken Burns
DocumentaryHistoryTV movie

★ 7.7/10Audience rating

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.

The story

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.

Cast

Tom HanksHoratio Nelson Jackson (voice) Keith DavidNarrator (voice) Adam ArkinOther Voices (voice) Philip BoscoOther Voices (voice) John CullumOther Voices (voice) Amy MadiganOther Voices (voice) Eli WallachOther Voices (voice)

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