The story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call “the greatest man in the world.”
Episodes
Season 1
Media
Backdrops and posters from the title's official gallery
Top Cast
Nicholas Rowe
George Washington
Jeff Daniels
Self - Narrator
Hainsley Lloyd Bennett
William Lee
Nia Roberts
Martha Washington
Joanne Freeman
Self - Yale University
Alan Taylor
Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Joseph Ellis
Self - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian
Alexis Coe
Self - George Washington Biographer
Ed Lengel
Self - George Washington Biographer
Douglas Bradburn
Self - President & CEO, Mount Vernon
