Benjamin Franklin (2002) - PBS Documentary

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  • A Benjamin Franklin documentary released by PBS in 2002 in High Quality.

Komentáře • 128

  • @Engelhafen
    @Engelhafen Před 2 lety +65

    I am thankful to the CZcams gods but there were no commercials during this documentary a miracle in itself

    • @danielbeach5947
      @danielbeach5947 Před 6 měsíci +3

      Shhhh haha

    • @RepublicTeaRoom
      @RepublicTeaRoom Před 4 měsíci

      💯🎯

    • @davidsawyer1599
      @davidsawyer1599 Před 21 dnem

      No doubt. I give these videos 8 mins. If there is an advertisement. Thumbs down and don't suggest. Thanks for the heads up.

  • @memyself4431
    @memyself4431 Před 2 lety +23

    This is my nightcap as much as I want to stay awake and listen it puts me to sleep and it’s perfect. One day I will get to pay attention to it all .

    • @JoshHuckabee1
      @JoshHuckabee1 Před 2 lety +3

      Same here. The trick is to start it 10/15 minutes later each time. I’ve probably listened to this all the way through more than a dozen times now and I never grow tired of it.

    • @memyself4431
      @memyself4431 Před 2 lety +3

      @@JoshHuckabee1 the myth of Benjamin Franklin and the nostalgia is what keeps me coming back for more

    • @oldmansportsog2514
      @oldmansportsog2514 Před 6 měsíci

      @@JoshHuckabee1exactly how I do it bill just go back to where I was mostly still awake and play it over. I do docs or cartoon every night before bed but cartoons like paradise pd,brickleberry, F is for family, Futurama, Crossing Swords

    • @johnbeans2000
      @johnbeans2000 Před 3 měsíci +1

      You should try PBS secret empire, 3 parts history of Japan. Thst is the best sleep aid!

  • @MyYTaccountName
    @MyYTaccountName Před 2 lety +42

    I love PBS documentaries. They’re so relaxing.

    • @joelouie5649
      @joelouie5649 Před rokem

      Right you should watch the nikola tesla pbs documentary

  • @redmustangredmustang
    @redmustangredmustang Před 2 lety +25

    Benjamin Franklin was the man who whenever he spoke you kept quiet and listened. He really was that important as a scientist, poet, speaker, founding father, diplomat, ambassador, etc. Along with Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin was really important. Without him and the founding fathers this country especially this constitution is not made.

  • @chrisbruggers8076
    @chrisbruggers8076 Před 2 lety +22

    No doubt one of the most important and productive human beings to ever live.

    • @timedwards2579
      @timedwards2579 Před 2 lety +8

      Leonardo Da Vinci and Benjamin Franklin are probably the greatest polymaths in recorded history.

    • @vimalcurio
      @vimalcurio Před 7 měsíci

      ​​@@timedwards2579only difference was da Vinci wasn't a playboy and he didn't let them distract him.

    • @timedwards2579
      @timedwards2579 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@vimalcurio Da vinci did almost go down for being a playboy actually.

    • @vimalcurio
      @vimalcurio Před 7 měsíci

      @@timedwards2579 I've never heard and those things are unnecessary distractions for artists and legends. So I don't think that's true

    • @timedwards2579
      @timedwards2579 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@vimalcurio he was charged for sodomy and lewd sex and trialed in Florence I believe. He was saved by his connections to the Medici family.

  • @solitaryman172
    @solitaryman172 Před 5 dny

    This documentary is really comprehensive. It has inspired me to read Franklins' autobiography
    Much obliged!

  • @kevip1324
    @kevip1324 Před 2 lety +16

    Coming from a true Philadelphian, Fascinating!! 😎☕️🇺🇸

    • @kaptainkutthroat
      @kaptainkutthroat Před rokem

      Too bad you can't win the world series or the super bowl

  • @RepublicTeaRoom
    @RepublicTeaRoom Před 4 měsíci +3

    22 years was a long time, but right on time. 4/21-22/2024.

  • @jackrice2770
    @jackrice2770 Před 18 dny +2

    We are in desperate need of another Ben Franklin!

  • @virgilhoratio9819
    @virgilhoratio9819 Před 3 lety +25

    One of the finest Documentaries on Uncle Ben.

    • @kimberlywisniewski7859
      @kimberlywisniewski7859 Před 3 lety +3

      Funny thing is he Really is my uncle well a few greats uncle lol

    • @manicx90
      @manicx90 Před 2 lety +2

      I recently found out that he is my 8th great grandfather

  • @grantlee1959
    @grantlee1959 Před rokem +4

    This PBS documentary is one of my most favorites.

  • @AngelaBronson
    @AngelaBronson Před 3 lety +12

    Thank you so ooooo much for posting this!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏

  • @marlyndonnelly2206
    @marlyndonnelly2206 Před 2 lety +6

    The Library Company of Philadelphia is still in existence today. Still free and open to the public:) 📚📚📚

  • @akachiazubuike1109
    @akachiazubuike1109 Před 18 dny

    They must literally be supressing this music. Who wouldn't like this on the radio?

  • @rosseannecruz5201
    @rosseannecruz5201 Před 2 lety +8

    It’s amazing to know American history

  • @reubenj.cogburn8546
    @reubenj.cogburn8546 Před 3 lety +10

    Damn good thing I've got a good pair of speakers

  • @freddywizowski8605
    @freddywizowski8605 Před rokem

    Your a great person for making this channel basically just to upload this my good sir.

  • @jpraise6771
    @jpraise6771 Před 2 lety +6

    hello fellow struggler. In this dark and unfair world, i just thought i'd let you know that God loves you and to never stop loving yourself and pursuing happiness

    • @narq5099
      @narq5099 Před 6 měsíci

      Satan loves you more. Come join us and live your best life!

  • @voyaristika5673
    @voyaristika5673 Před 11 měsíci +1

    When the PC age hit the world I remember reading that if Franklin were alive he'd be one of the first to have a web site.

  • @KDonhoops
    @KDonhoops Před měsícem

    just finished this and I highly recommend tbis doc on one of our greatest presidents

  • @yatinexile7144
    @yatinexile7144 Před 18 dny

    52:45 I'm watching this as a thunderstorm passes through my neighborhood. There was a lightning strike outside my house and I wondered if it was lighting from the storm or from this video.

  • @RepublicTeaRoom
    @RepublicTeaRoom Před 4 měsíci

    Loved THIS!

  • @TienTran-xf7mr
    @TienTran-xf7mr Před 2 lety +4

    An intellectual benjamin Franklin

  • @samrupani4316
    @samrupani4316 Před 3 lety +3

    Excellent.

  • @fowleheidi482
    @fowleheidi482 Před 27 dny

    The New Hampshire Gazette has been recognized as The Nation's Oldest Newspaper. Daniel Fowle founder, Steve Fowle current Editor

  • @patrickfrawley6656
    @patrickfrawley6656 Před 2 měsíci

    I love Benjamin franklin ❤

  • @BlueBaron3339
    @BlueBaron3339 Před 18 dny

    The negative comments are hilarious! They have nothing to do with Benjamin Franklin really and everything to do with the sad lives of the commentators. 😂 As for the documentary itself it only seems dated because it dwells on Franklin's accomplishments, his work ethic, and the range of his intellectual abilities. He was a polymath at a time when the sum of human knowledge was smaller and an individual gifted person could make substantial advances in multiple fields. But most of us lead placeholder lives - hence the desire to trash remarkable people.

  • @JTC2227
    @JTC2227 Před 2 lety +2

    R.I.P.
    Benjamin Franklin
    1706 - 1790

  • @oldmansportsog2514
    @oldmansportsog2514 Před 6 měsíci

    Benjamin Franklin would
    Of had the most followers on Twitter of Twitter existed back then

  • @Vestnesis93
    @Vestnesis93 Před 2 lety +7

    What a great man!

  • @KevinTewksbury
    @KevinTewksbury Před 4 měsíci +1

    Ben Franklin was dope.

  • @samfiadrangus9188
    @samfiadrangus9188 Před 3 lety +9

    Volume is so dang low!

  • @luke144
    @luke144 Před 5 měsíci

    I'm related to this great man. Watching this it's pretty obvious.

  • @peggylindenthaler6169
    @peggylindenthaler6169 Před 3 měsíci

    The audio is very poor here. I had to turn up the volume all the way.

  • @toncuz8291
    @toncuz8291 Před 2 lety +2

    Sound is HORRIBLE.

  • @LindaCasey
    @LindaCasey Před 2 lety +2

    💞💞

  • @stephenolson532
    @stephenolson532 Před 25 dny +1

    Franklin was the 4th President right?

  • @jacobkeppler1984
    @jacobkeppler1984 Před 2 lety

    Keeps American revolution series coming I like history

  • @twinsboy_3410
    @twinsboy_3410 Před měsícem

    1 video? “ unlimited “

  • @randydelaney7053
    @randydelaney7053 Před rokem +1

    Sorry Sir, it's 2023 and it's a Nightmare of a world, run by worse than blood thirsty and power ravenous wolves but Demons and monsters. i am also glad you can't see your beloved America now it's nothing like the country you fought to create anymore,

  • @HenryCasillas
    @HenryCasillas Před 10 měsíci +1

    🌻

  • @AB-kg6rk
    @AB-kg6rk Před 3 lety +4

    Too quiet.... dang..

  • @justinchamberlain3443
    @justinchamberlain3443 Před 2 lety +2

    15:01 "he studies in private" at lunch; self education from geometry to winning arguments using the socratic method..
    16:01 he develops his own writing style by disassembling books and putting them back in his own form.
    25:30 makes a plan
    28:45 do you know any rich ppl? Do you know how they got rich? Do you know if and how their business failed??
    54:45 speaks of the day of judgement
    1:18:30 "Let's be frugal. Our own laziness taxes us more than kings and parliaments"

  • @tombystander
    @tombystander Před 23 dny +1

    Pretty limited history docs for a channel named unlimited history docs

  • @vampoftrance
    @vampoftrance Před 2 lety

    I'm from Boston

  • @websitemartian
    @websitemartian Před dnem

    5:33 b franklin voice

  • @mohdnasir5140
    @mohdnasir5140 Před rokem

    What PBS stands for?

    • @mohdnasir5140
      @mohdnasir5140 Před rokem

      Page 131
      Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack, published in America between 1732 and 1757, is remembered for its witty sayings.

  • @jgrab1
    @jgrab1 Před rokem

    Despite this upload being in 720p, the source is clearly 480p and hardly "high quality."

  • @pigeontheatre7642
    @pigeontheatre7642 Před rokem +2

    Sound too low

  • @thedeucemonkey2331
    @thedeucemonkey2331 Před rokem

    "It's easy to forget he had hair once..."
    Said by the Dude with Negative Mohawk...
    🤣🤣🤣
    You even see the look of his face like 😒
    13:10

  • @peterolbrisch8970
    @peterolbrisch8970 Před měsícem

    2:07:31 18th century star wars.

  • @kingrichardiii6280
    @kingrichardiii6280 Před rokem +1

    I miss publicly funded tv channels. as they went the way of the dodo all the crap and bullshit flooded in.

  • @hoss-lk4bg
    @hoss-lk4bg Před rokem

    volume sucks

  • @LeadersEatLast
    @LeadersEatLast Před rokem +1

    ✒📖

  • @jeffreypreedom7165
    @jeffreypreedom7165 Před měsícem

    And they told us lightning came down a kite string that he tied a key to, and we fell for that. Wow we are so sad, sad sad people we really believe some serious BS.😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @tommeredith7462
    @tommeredith7462 Před měsícem

    If Ben Franklin was alive today he would be more astonished by a Three hour video of kissing his big butt.

  • @glencoewhite6939
    @glencoewhite6939 Před rokem

    58:36 oh shit, Ben that’s cold. Serving the wife Catherine’s sweetened plums, you dirty dog.

  • @thomasstewartanderson3369

    I thought I was

  • @ScottiShark22
    @ScottiShark22 Před 3 lety +3

    At the mark of 1:59:34 , is that accent a put-on / joke? That can't be real, can it? The name of Jonathan DULL? And that head of hair? They had to be slipping this representation in as a lark on the viewers, right?

    • @shaft9000
      @shaft9000 Před 3 lety

      why, he even sounds like Bernie Sanders.
      psssst, It's a New Englander's dialect.

    • @anwjuice
      @anwjuice Před 3 lety +1

      What you expect they didn't have a big budget

    • @redpilled299
      @redpilled299 Před 2 lety +1

      i can’t understand a single word of his rambling rant. someone help.

  • @sakpie
    @sakpie Před 3 lety +3

    z

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you Před 2 lety

      You ain't no damn Putin supporter Russian shut up

  • @whitetrssh1000
    @whitetrssh1000 Před 2 lety +3

    Uncle? Not my uncle....

  • @kevinhaubrich579
    @kevinhaubrich579 Před 2 lety

    Mr. Prezbo !?!

  • @CrownWho
    @CrownWho Před 2 lety

    Colm!

  • @usman710
    @usman710 Před 5 měsíci

    And then they found 15 bodies in his house in london
    Ahoy

  • @jeffmartin7214
    @jeffmartin7214 Před 2 lety

    Was he the 3rd president?

    • @kingrichardiii6280
      @kingrichardiii6280 Před rokem

      no...
      he was 6th president of Pennsylvania

    • @elizabeth3143
      @elizabeth3143 Před rokem +2

      No, he was never president. Thomas Jefferson was the third president.

  • @user-tx2mp4cb6n
    @user-tx2mp4cb6n Před 7 měsíci

    I'm I only one who watched 30 minutes of this and had to turn it off. Just constant fawning over the guy. He was so clever, popular, diligent, amazing, perfect.... 🤢🤮. That stuff is so boring. I want to hear about his flaws and vices because I'm sure he had some (like the rest of us) and that's way more interesting.

    • @nick_windsor93
      @nick_windsor93 Před 5 měsíci

      I suggest watching a Thomas Jefferson or a Daniel Boone documentary. Plenty of controversy there.

  • @greggphelps7643
    @greggphelps7643 Před 2 lety

    It's G'zus there are no "j" s in the American alphabet...Ask Ben Franklin...

  • @peds8345
    @peds8345 Před rokem

    He took advantage of women non-stop correct? Would sleep with friend's partners and all kinds of wild stuff.. Also didn't he see another man doing something similar with a Kite and just paid him for the idea?

  • @jeffreypreedom7165
    @jeffreypreedom7165 Před měsícem

    They found Dead bodies in Benjamin Franklin’s house basement 200 years after he lived there. What the fuck

  • @elizabeth3143
    @elizabeth3143 Před rokem

    I did not like this documentary. The actor that played Ben Franklin was just awful, and despite it's length, a lot of important historical information was left out. I watched this last night, and tonight watched another documentary that was far better - "The Amazing Life of Benjamin Franklin- American Genius-Full." This was half the length and covered much more. The narrarators were better too. Some of the narrators of the PBS version had some liberal biases that detracted from the program.

  • @mwbenjamin
    @mwbenjamin Před 3 lety +1

    57:13 until 1:00:06 shows that Franklin was a pervert. ;)

    • @XTen1000DaysX
      @XTen1000DaysX Před 3 lety +3

      Nah it's after 2 hour when he visits France he got mad dome in France

    • @kevip1324
      @kevip1324 Před 2 lety

      Muh ok. Let’s erase him from history. Thanks for your hard work

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you Před 2 lety

      @@kevip1324 Franklin's like the ONLY one who stands the test of time .he was the first liberal and he was the only forefather openly against slavery and never owned them

    • @LisaNH934
      @LisaNH934 Před 2 lety

      @@ttacking_you he DID own slaves

    • @ttacking_you
      @ttacking_you Před 2 lety +1

      @@LisaNH934 yeah I saw that shit last night, too. Well Mea culpa but at the end of his life he was anti slavery

  • @jeffreypreedom7165
    @jeffreypreedom7165 Před měsícem

    And they told us lightning came down a kite string that he tied a key to, and we fell for that. Wow we are so sad, sad sad people we really believe some serious BS.😂😂😂😂😂😂