Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

107 mins | Documentary | Oct. 6, 2003

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

107 mins | Documentary | Oct. 6, 2003

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.
IMDb rating 7.9
Producers Florentine Films, american lives ii film project
Original title Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Directors Ken Burns
Writers Dayton Duncan

Cast

Tom Hanks

as Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)

Keith David

as Narrator (voice)

Adam Arkin

as Other Voices (voice)

Philip Bosco

as Other Voices (voice)

John Cullum

as Other Voices (voice)

Amy Madigan

as Other Voices (voice)

Eli Wallach

as Other Voices (voice)