Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Name: Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Director: Ken Burns
Genre: Documentary, History, TV Movie
Released: 2003-10-06
Duration: 1 h 47 min
Cast: Tom Hanks, Keith David, Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, John Cullum

Documentary

History

TV Movie

October 6, 2003 (23 years ago)

1h 47m

7.7/10

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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.