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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003)

Directed by Ken Burns

Overview

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.

Length 107 minutes

Actors

Tom Hanks | Eli Wallach | Philip Bosco | Amy Madigan | John Cullum | Adam Arkin | Keith David