road trip,automobile,cross country

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003)

Poster for 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.

Cast & Crew

Director
Ken Burns
  • Profile picture of Tom Hanks
    Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice) Tom Hanks
  • Profile picture of Keith David
    Narrator (voice) Keith David
  • Profile picture of Adam Arkin
    Other Voices (voice) Adam Arkin
  • Profile picture of Philip Bosco
    Other Voices (voice) Philip Bosco
  • Profile picture of John Cullum
    Other Voices (voice) John Cullum
  • Profile picture of Amy Madigan
    Other Voices (voice) Amy Madigan
  • Profile picture of Eli Wallach
    Other Voices (voice) Eli Wallach

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Keywords

  • road trip
  • automobile
  • cross country