Washington

Watched it twice. Loved the narration and actors. Learned a lot and God Bless America.

Great job done by the various historians, politicians and military leaders (former) on telling the story. PC geberated Graphics were not bad either. Washington's character was played by the most non Washington looking character. Skinny and middle height, Washington was a very big man for his time, fuller face. Knox was nearer 300lbs in real life and Cornwallis was not elderly as portayed in the documentary. Hamilton and Arnold did not fit either.

Filming in Romania shows through with the people and tri-corn hats there were popular. These hats in the documentary were oversized and out of shape. Odd..

Why is everyone contrasting this against the John Adams mini-series? It's clearly a documentary done in documentary-style format with commentary from various historians. No matter what, it'll never be accurate enough for some people and the actors will never look enough like the real people, etc., but I enjoyed it for the simple fact that it was well-made and the actor playing Washington was engaging and did what I can only assume was a great job with his accent (he's Scottish and we really have no idea how "Americans" talked back then). One of the things that irked me was the filmmakers showing us how woke they were by pointing out how unwoke Washington was because he owned slaves and took pains to make sure they didn't win their freedom by a technicality. You know who else owned slaves? Literally most everybody else who could afford it back then. And I guarantee you they would have taken the same steps to safeguard against the loss of their property, too. We know he's human and has flaws and I think we already at least assumed he owned slaves, so this was unnecessary. So, does this mean the father of our country is cancelled now, or is it okay if we can at least appreciate the positive contributions he made?

What a great job! Thanks for a riveting look at the story of our first president. Thanks for improving your production quality! Revealing story that most people don't know. Great cast. Great talking heads. Great voice over. Great script. Yes, there's a couple of issues that prevent me from giving it the rating of 10...but please keep this up. Do more! I have been waiting for your channel to target watchers like me for decades. I consider myself an 'informed' viewer and unless I was interested in watching a piece in which the information was skewed, sometimes invented, with dubious backup and a way over-dreicted voice-over -- I'd just end up switching channels. I've recommended this piece to several people..

Washington not looking like Washington is odd. He looks more like Jefferson. You would think they would have tried to cast someone that looks like the narrator. The strange casting is that of John Adams being played by a Dutch actor makes no sense at all. I mean he is a descent actor, but looks nothing like him and not sure he even speaks fluent English. Other than that an enjoyable documentary to watch, and excellent historians that I have seen before. Also, I had no issue with Clinton. I mean why doesn't it make sense to have a former president talk about the first president, my guess is the negative comments were more political.