Diretor/a
Ellen Hovde
DIRETOR/A
Muffie Meyer
Elenco (na ordem dos créditos)
Richard Easton
Benjamin Franklin
Dylan Baker
Franklin as a young man
Colm Feore
Narrator
Anthony Heald
Jonathan Austin
Sebastian Roché
Vicomte
Blair Brown
Jane Franklin Mecom
Jim True-Frost
William Franklin
Peter Gerety
Joseph Galloway
Josef Sommer
Cotton Mather
Simon Jones
Thomas Penn
Jefferson Mays
Elkanah Watson
Kathleen Chalfant
Silence Dogood
Jennifer Dundas
Catherine Ray
Ronald Guttman
Le Comte de Vergennes
Gerry Bamman
Paul Wentworth
Daniel Gerroll
Joseph Priestley
Roberta Maxwell
Deborah Read Franklin
John Christopher Jones
Ephraim Eliot
Martin Rayner
Robert Whittington
Peter Donaldson
John Adams
Natacha Roi
Mme. Brillon de Jouy
John Curless
William Strahan
Eddie Korbich
Jared Ruggles
Andrew Seear
British Government Official
Anthony Cochrane
King George III
Carol Berkin
Self - Baruch College
Keith Arbour
Self - Historian
Matthew Bentley
Benjamin as a child
Edmund Morgan
Self - Yale University
Joseph Becton
Self - Park Ranger, Independence National Historical Park
Michael Zuckerman
Self - University of Pennsylvania
Michael Bentley
Claude-Anne Lopez
Self - The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Yale University
Pauline Maier
Self - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ralph Lerner
Self - University of Chicago
H.W. Brands
Self - Texas A & M University
Dudley Herschbach
Self - Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Harvard University
Ralph Archbold
Ben Franklin
Robert Middlekauff
Self - University of California, Berkeley
Thomas Fleming
Self - Author
Gordon S. Wood
Self - Brown University
Walter Isaacson
Self - Chairman & CEO, CNN
Willard Sterne Randall
Self - Champlain College
Jonathan R. Dull
E. Philip Krider
Self - Institute of Atmospheric Physics, University of Arizona
David Taft Morgan
Self - University of Montevallo
Sheila Skemp
Self - University of Mississippi
Bernard I. Cohen
Self - Harvard University
Barbara Oberg
Self - Princeton University
Douglas Anderson
Self - University of Georgia
John Shy
Self - University of Michigan
Gary B. Nash
Self - University of California at Los Angeles
Laurent St. Pierre
Count de Segur(uncredited)