Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

2003

107 min

7.3

Ends at

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.

Budget

$0

Genre

Documentary

Director

Ken Burns

Country

United States of America

Cast & Crew

Tom Hanks

Keith David

Adam Arkin

Philip Bosco

John Cullum

Amy Madigan

Eli Wallach

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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

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.

  • Tom Hanks

  • Keith David

  • Adam Arkin

  • Philip Bosco

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