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Benjamin Franklin helps craft the Declaration of Independence and wins French support.
After success as a Philadelphia printer Benjamin Franklin earns worldwide fame in science.
Extras
This bonus scene features Benjamin Franklin House in London, his only surviving residence.
Franklin and Adams have to share a bedroom in a humorous scene not in the final film.
Get an inside look from Ken Burns on the making of Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin, the most famous American in London, became the face of American resistance.
Franklin and Adams frustrated each other in France with opposing approaches to diplomacy.
The Treaty of Paris ended a war, secured Independence and created an Empire.
Franklin’s musical invention, the armonica, became a sensation in Europe.
Franklin studied electricity and proved lightning’s electrical nature with a key and kite.
Enslaved Philadelphia residents worked in businesses and homes, including Franklin’s.
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