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The World Turned Upside Down: 1778-1783 S01 E05

The British hope to exploit the issue of slavery and to enlist the support of loyalists in the south. They fail. After a series of brutal engagements, the British army heads for Virginia, only to be trapped by the miraculous convergence of Washington's army and the French fleet at Yorktown. The end of the war is at hand.


Series Cast

Victor Garber (as John Dickinson) Donna Murphy (as Abigail Adams) Alex Jennings (as King George III) Anthony Heald (as Philip Vickers Fithian) Colm Feore (as Alexander Hamilton) Peter Donaldson (as John Adams) Stephen Lang (as George Washington) Jefferson Mays (as James Madison) Edward Herrmann (as Narrator) Philip Seymour Hoffman (as Joseph Plumb Martin) Jane Adams (as Sara Scott) Jake Weber (as Virginia Officer) Isiah Whitlock, Jr. (as Luke - Slave) Terrence Mann (as General John Burgoyne) Mel Johnson Jr. (as Jehu Grant) Paxton Whitehead (as Horace Walpole) Remak Ramsay (as Thomas Hutchinson) Forrest Sawyer (as Self - Host) Campbell Scott (as Thomas Jefferson) Roger Rees (as Thomas Paine) James Naughton (as Patrick Henry) Philip Bosco (as Benjamin Franklin) Joris Stuyck (as Johann Ewald) Steve Zahn (as American Sergeant) Francie Swift (as Baroness von Riedesel) Simon Jones (as Ambrose Serle) Daniel Gerroll (as General Charles Cornwallis) Roberta Maxwell (as Mercy Otis Warren) Byron Jennings (as John Hancock) JD Cullum (as Nicholas Cresswell) Neil Maffin (as Anti-Federalist) Kali Rocha (as Eliza Wilkinson) Mark Letheren (as British Soldier) Douglas Weston (as Sir George Collier) Austin Pendleton (as Benjamin Rush) John Ellison Conlee (as Col. Henry Knox) Andreas Beckett (as Lieutenant Colonel Baum) David Bishins (as Melancton Smith) Sebastian Roché (as Marquis de Lafayette) Rob Campbell (as Noah Webster) Ronald Guttman (as Comte de Rochambeau) David Yelland (as Edmund Burke) Mark Nelson (as Loyalist) James Murtaugh (as Anti-Federalist) Murphy Guyer (as Benjamin Gilbert)


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