Michael Douglas
Benjamin Franklin
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- 8. S1 E8 New episode May 17, 2024
- Benjamin Franklin embarks on a secret mission to France, with American independence in the balance.
- 7. S1 E7 New episode May 10, 2024
- Benjamin Franklin embarks on a secret mission to France, with American independence in the balance.
- 6. Beauty and Folly New episode May 3, 2024
- Franklin suspects traitors are everywhere; Vergennes makes a final offer.
Why to watch
- Michael Douglas has a fresh take on Benjamin Franklin
- When: The first three episodes of Franklin stream April 12 on Apple TV+.
- What to know: Michael Douglas stars in and executive produces the new limited series about “the greatest gamble of Benjamin Franklin’s career,” according to a press release for the show.
- Viewers meet Franklin, 70, in December 1776 as he travels to France and convinces “an absolute monarchy to underwrite America’s experiment in democracy.”
- Douglas “embodies a lot of Franklin’s spirit in that he is really smart, and charming, and completely contemporary in that he’s aware of everything that’s going on around him, on a global level and on a personal level,” Franklin director Tim Van Patten told Variety. “And he’s curious. And he has an absolute lust for life.”
- The series is based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff’s book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America.
- — Garin Flowers, entertainment reporter
- April 10, 2024
Franklin: With Michael Douglas, Noah Jupe, Olivier Claverie, Marc Duret. Explores the story of one of the greatest gambles of Franklin's career. At age 70, Franklin outmaneuvered British spies and French informers while engineering the Franco-American alliance of 1778.
- Biography, Drama, History
- 2 min
- Noah Jupe, Marc Duret, Eddie Marsan
Franklin is a biographical drama miniseries about the United States Founding Father Benjamin Franklin, based on Stacy Schiff's 2005 book A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America. It was released on Apple TV+ on April 12, 2024.
- Kirk Ellis
- Tim Van Patten
- A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, by Stacy Schiff
- Biographical drama
Apr 19, 2024 · Apple TV’s limited series Franklin, based on Stacy Schiff’s 2005 bestseller A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France and the Birth of America, follows Benjamin Franklin from 1776 to 1783, when he convinced the king to fund the (very anti-king) American Revolution, the cost of which helped spark the French Revolution. That choice eventually ...
Apr 10, 2024 · As historical dramas go, “Franklin” is a cracking glimpse at the delicate works required to build a republic, even from an ocean away. After all, America’s freedom from Britain was won by more than muskets on the battlefields of Lexington and Concord; it took gumption, charm, and no small amount of promise-making, whether real or illusory ...
Benjamin Franklin FRS FRSA FRSE (January 17, 1706 [ O.S. January 6, 1705] [Note 1] – April 17, 1790) was an American polymath, a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher, and political philosopher. [1] Among the most influential intellectuals of his time, Franklin was one of the Founding Fathers of the ...
Franklin. Watch Franklin with a subscription on Apple TV+. In December 1776, Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his electrical experiments, but his passion and power are put to the test when he ...
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