Kirk Ellis
Director
John Adams (2008)
Specials
Adapted from David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, this lavish seven-part miniseries chronicles the life of Founding Father John Adams, starting with the Boston Massacre of 1770 through his years as an ambassador in Europe, then his terms as vice president and president of the United States, up to his death on July 4, 1826.
Released March 16, 2008
Episode 68 min
14+
Genres: Biography, Drama, History
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Watch Providers: HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
Production Companies: Mid Atlantic Films, Playtone, HBO Films, High Noon Productions
Network: HBO
Country: United States
Languages:
English
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S0E1 - Making John Adams
See the technology and artistry behind the making of the epic John Adams miniseries.
S0E2 - David McCullough: Painting With Words
In this intimate, informal portrait of an artist as a historian, Pulitzer Prize-winning author David McCullough welcomes viewers into his public and private world, exhibiting the infectious curiosity, humor and humanity that have defined his work and life. Director Mark Herzog travels with the celebrated writer as he delivers a speech to rapt legislators; climbs the same Philadelphia church's steeple tower as did John Adams two centuries earlier; returns to the Massachusetts Historical Society to again study an original Adams letter written to his wife Abigail a day before July 4, 1776; visits his old Brooklyn neighborhood and makes his annual trek across the Brooklyn Bridge; sings songs, paints pictures, and reflects on his undiminished enthusiasm for writing while sitting in his tiny "world headquarters" (shed-like though not a shed, he insists) on the grounds of his home. Accompanied in most of these journeys by wife Rosalee (whom he met the summer before college), McCullough provid
Network: HBO
Episode Runtime: 68 min.
Season Runtime: 482 min.
Released: March 16, 2008
Last Air Date: April 20, 2008, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-14 / 14+
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