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Benjamin Franklin

"The people," he wrotea friend, "happen to love me."

"The people," he wrote
a friend, "happen to love me."

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"The people," he wrote a friend, "happen to love me."
Duration
5 seconds
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25
Timestamp in Movie
01:11:23
Uploaded
May 05, 2025
Season
1
Episode
1
Genres
documentary, biography, history
Production
Florentine Films

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Movie Summary

Exploring the life and work of writer and publisher, scientist and inventor, diplomat and signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution: Benjamin Franklin.
S01 • E02 Franklin drew up a list of 4 non-negotiable demands - Benjamin Franklin 00:16
Franklin drew up a list of 4 non-negotiable demands
S01 • E01 Narrator: In June of 1757, Franklin once more - Benjamin Franklin 00:08
Narrator: In June of 1757, Franklin once more
S01 • E01 The Assembly had sent him on a mission to try to negotiate - Benjamin Franklin 00:10
The Assembly had sent him on a mission to try to negotiate
S01 • E02 To complicate things, when two other American negotiators - Benjamin Franklin 00:10
To complicate things, when two other American negotiators
S01 • E01 He brought his son William along as his assistant, - Benjamin Franklin 00:07
He brought his son William along as his assistant,
S01 • E02 One was John Jay, a brilliant New York lawyer. - Benjamin Franklin 00:06
One was John Jay, a brilliant New York lawyer.
S01 • E02 The other was John Adams. - Benjamin Franklin 00:05
The other was John Adams.
S01 • E01 Deborah worried that her husband's ship - Benjamin Franklin 00:09
Deborah worried that her husband's ship
S01 • E02 Man as Adams: That I have no friendship - Benjamin Franklin 00:05
Man as Adams: That I have no friendship
S01 • E02 That I am incapable of having any with a man of his moral - Benjamin Franklin 00:07
That I am incapable of having any with a man of his moral
S01 • E01 Woman as Deborah Franklin: I have been in much pain - Benjamin Franklin 00:17
Woman as Deborah Franklin: I have been in much pain
S01 • E02 His whole Life has been one continued Insult - Benjamin Franklin 00:06
His whole Life has been one continued Insult
S01 • E02 I never know when he speaks the Truth, and when not. - Benjamin Franklin 00:05
I never know when he speaks the Truth, and when not.
S01 • E02 I wish with all my Soul he was out of public Service, - Benjamin Franklin 00:12
I wish with all my Soul he was out of public Service,
S01 • E01 I am not able to bear the least thing in the world - Benjamin Franklin 00:07
I am not able to bear the least thing in the world
S01 • E02 Ellis: Franklin was the kind of man put on Earth - Benjamin Franklin 00:07
Ellis: Franklin was the kind of man put on Earth
S01 • E01 Narrator: Approaching the coast of England, - Benjamin Franklin 00:12
Narrator: Approaching the coast of England,
S01 • E02 Franklin, himself, writes back to the Congress during - Benjamin Franklin 00:09
Franklin, himself, writes back to the Congress during
S01 • E01 "Were I a Roman Catholic," he wrote Deborah, - Benjamin Franklin 00:26
"Were I a Roman Catholic," he wrote Deborah,
S01 • E02 "But, in some ways and some things, absolutely out - Benjamin Franklin 00:10
"But, in some ways and some things, absolutely out