Overview
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audience in its rich and compelling historical actuality. Includes the real history of the "first thanksgiving".
Production
GBH · WETA · Steeplechase Films · BBC · PBS Productions
Cast & Characters
Roger Rees
William Bradford
Oliver Platt
Self - Narrator (voice)
Artemus Cragg
Calypso Cragg
Julian Elfer
Michael Elwyn
Jos Brown Gaier
Matthew Jure
Howard Lee
Nathaniel Philbrick
Directors & Crew
Ric Burns
Director
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