Horatio's drive America's first road trip
(DVD) 

"PBS DVD gold."

Special features: interview with Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan; the making-of 'Horatio's drive'; outtakes from the film.

Cinematography, Allen Moore, Ken Burns ; narrator, Keith David ; editor, Erik Ewers.

Voices: Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin, Tom Bodett, Philip Bosco, Kevin Conway, John Cullum, Murphy Guyer, Amy Madigan, George Plimpton, Eli Wallach.

Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, drove from San Francisco to New York City, in 1903 to became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent--a feat never before accomplished. It would mark the beginning of a new era in America and the end of another. It took Lewis & Clark over two years to go from the Atlantic to the Pacific--Horatio went the opposite direction, by means of the "Horseless carriage", in less than 3 months.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD format; Region 1 encoding, stereo., Dolby surround.

Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.