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Benjamin Franklin : an extraordinary life: an electric mind / a production of Twin Cities Public Television St. Paul/Minneapolis in association with Middlemarch Films. - [Alexandria, VA] : PBS Distribution, �2009. - 1 videodisc (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

"BENF601." Originally produced for television in 2002. Special features: The making of Benjamin Franklin, program outtakes.

Let the experiment be made (1706-1753) -- The making of a revolutionary (1755-1776) -- The chess master (1776-1790).

Writer: Ronald Blumer ; Producers: Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer. Writer: Ronald Blumer ; Producers: Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer.

Narrator: Colm Feore.

Traces Franklin's epic life from humble beginnings to fame as a scientist, founding father, and America's first diplomat to France.

Not rated. DVD Donation


DVD; NTSC; Fullscreen presentation.


Closed-captioned.

ISBN: 1415711275 9781415711279

Standard No.: 841887050333

Publisher. No.: BENF601 PBS Home Video

Subjects--Personal Names:
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1600-1775

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Statesmen--United States--Biography.
Inventors--United States--Biography.
Documentary television programs.
Documentary television programs.
Inventors.
Statesmen.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Documentary television programs.
Biographical television programs.
Biography.
History.
Biographies.
Documentary television programs.

LC Class. No.: E302.6.F8 / B46 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 973.3/092