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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
7.7 / 10• 2003• 1h 47m•NR• English
DocumentaryHistoryTV Movie
Storyline
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 & Crew
Tom Hanks
Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)
Lead
Keith David
Narrator (voice)
Adam Arkin
Other Voices (voice)
Philip Bosco
Other Voices (voice)
John Cullum
Other Voices (voice)
Amy Madigan
Other Voices (voice)
Eli Wallach
Other Voices (voice)
What People Are Saying
4.0
“A staggering achievement of craft and ambition. Ken Burns's vision lands with breathtaking precision.”
4.0
“Every frame feels alive. Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is the rare release that takes its audience seriously.”
