Documentary ·History ·TV Movie · United States of America · 2003 · 1h 47m

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Director

Cast

Tom Hanks as Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice) Keith David as Narrator (voice) Adam Arkin as Other Voices (voice) Philip Bosco as Other Voices (voice) John Cullum as Other Voices (voice) Amy Madigan as Other Voices (voice)

Crew

Dayton Duncan — Writer

Synopsis

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.

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Key Collaborators

Ken Burns Director Dayton Duncan Writer

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