Inventing America brings our Founding Fathers back to life in a TV talk show before a live audience. In [this episode], James Madison (John Douglas Hall), Thomas Jefferson (Bill Barker), Alexander Hamilton (Hal Bidlack) and Patrick Henry (Richard Schumann) reveal the conflicts and infighting behind the new U.S. Consitution and how that led to the Bill of Rights. The program features a Q & A with college students in which the Founders apply the Bill of Rights to our own time. It concludes with Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech that inspired the idea of America in the first place. "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.

v. 1. Liberty for all. -- v. 2. Bonus materials.