Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003, English. Directed by Ken Burns.
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.
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- 1h 47m
- Post-credits
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- English
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is streaming on PBS Masterpiece, PBS Documentaries, and WETA+ in India.
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- Released
- 6 October 2003
- Country
- United States of America
- Written by
- Dayton Duncan
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is streaming on PBS Masterpiece, PBS Documentaries, and WETA+ in India. (Checked 13 November 2026.)
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Who directed Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip?
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003) was directed by Ken Burns and stars Tom Hanks, Keith David, Adam Arkin.