6. Are We to Be a Nation?: 1783-1788 (1997)
Peace comes to the United States, but governing the world's newest republic is no simple task. Congress is ineffectual and individual states act like sovereign nations. By the time the Constitutional Convention convenes in 1787, many wonder if the country can survive. The long ratification process helps define what sort of nation the United States is to be—a process that continues to this day.
Release date: 1997-11-25
Season number: 1
Episode number: 6
Runtime: 55 minutes
Cast
Victor Garber
as John Dickinson
Donna Murphy
as Abigail Adams
Alex Jennings
as King George III
Anthony Heald
as Philip Vickers Fithian
Colm Feore
as Alexander Hamilton
Peter Donaldson
as John Adams
Stephen Lang
as George Washington
Jefferson Mays
as James Madison
Edward Herrmann
as Narrator
Philip Seymour Hoffman
as Joseph Plumb Martin
Jane Adams
as Sara Scott
Jake Weber
as Virginia Officer
Isiah Whitlock, Jr.
as Luke - Slave
Terrence Mann
as General John Burgoyne
Mel Johnson Jr.
as Jehu Grant
Paxton Whitehead
as Horace Walpole
Remak Ramsay
as Thomas Hutchinson
Forrest Sawyer
as Self - Host
Campbell Scott
as Thomas Jefferson
Roger Rees
as Thomas Paine
James Naughton
as Patrick Henry
Philip Bosco
as Benjamin Franklin
Joris Stuyck
as Johann Ewald
Steve Zahn
as American Sergeant
Francie Swift
as Baroness von Riedesel
Simon Jones
as Ambrose Serle
Daniel Gerroll
as General Charles Cornwallis
Roberta Maxwell
as Mercy Otis Warren
Byron Jennings
as John Hancock
JD Cullum
as Nicholas Cresswell
Neil Maffin
as Anti-Federalist
Kali Rocha
as Eliza Wilkinson
Mark Letheren
as British Soldier
Douglas Weston
as Sir George Collier
Austin Pendleton
as Benjamin Rush
John Ellison Conlee
as Col. Henry Knox
Andreas Beckett
as Lieutenant Colonel Baum
David Bishins
as Melancton Smith
Sebastian Roché
as Marquis de Lafayette
Rob Campbell
as Noah Webster
Ronald Guttman
as Comte de Rochambeau
David Yelland
as Edmund Burke
Mark Nelson
as Loyalist
James Murtaugh
as Anti-Federalist
Murphy Guyer
as Benjamin Gilbert
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Jamison Selby - Southern Patriot, Stephen Temperley - Hector de Crevecoeur, Sam Tsoutsouvas - Hugh Ledlie