(Stares in our current moment.) In 1776, Benjamin Franklin hoped to convince France to do just that when the British colonies in America declared their independence from England and were in need ...

Benjamin Franklin, the oldest of ... "A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America." In it, Schiff ascribes Franklin's success to his ability to display honesty and ...

Apple TV+ has released a new trailer, which you can watch above, with a 70-year-old Benjamin Franklin heading to France in 1776 with his teen grandson Temple (The Undoing’s Noah Jupe ...

It gives us Benjamin Franklin, specifically during his eight-year period in France, in a suburb of Paris, working to persuade French bigwigs to support America in its war for independence.

LOS ANGELES – Even Michael Douglas had doubts about portraying Benjamin Franklin in the ... historical novel “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, And The Birth of America." ...

Temple gets swept up in his grandfather’s mission and while in France served as his secretary. His father was a British loyalist, and estranged from Benjamin Franklin. Jupe hopes “Franklin ...

“The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin” appeared posthumously ... Schiff’s well-regarded “A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America,” the series provides a ...

By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic When he arrived in France in 1776, Benjamin Franklin had a sort of global fame that’s hard to completely fathom, given a world of slow-traveling news ...

By Liza Foreman Benjamin Franklin’s diplomatic mission to France during the American Revolution is front and center in the Apple + TV series Franklin, and the series star and executive producer ...

“Franklin” director Tim Van Patten, who won Emmys for “Boardwalk Empire” and “The Pacific,” says that although he loves history and is a history buff “this was a slice of history I ...