Making a Government brings our Founding Fathers back to life in a TV talk show filmed before a live audience. This program tells the story behind the Constitutional Convention of 1787-four momentous months that changed the world. James Madison (John Douglas Hall), Alexander Hamilton (Hal Bidlack), Benjamin Franklin (John Hamant), Gouverneur Morris (Tom Bengston), and George Washington (Gary Zell) discuss the conflicts and compromises that led to creating the world's most enduring republic. While imagined and presented as a retrospective, the conversation is based on fact, using the Founders' actual words. "Episode One features three delegates to the Second Continental Congress--Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams--discussing the lead-up to the Declaration of Independence. A fourth delegate, John Dickinson, who refused to sign the document, reveals the conflict behind this historic event. Find out what went on in the struggle to create a nation and how that struggle resonates today."

Disc 1: 69 min. ; Bonus material: 27 min.

disc 1. Making a government. -- disc 2. Bonus materials.