Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

About Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage."

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003) is a documentary history film directed by Ken Burns. Tom Hanks stars as Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice), Keith David as Narrator (voice), Adam Arkin as Other Voices (voice), and Philip Bosco as Other Voices (voice).

It runs 107 minutes and was released in October 2003. Written by Dayton Duncan. It was produced by Florentine Films.

Shelv files it under cross country, automobile, and road trip. In the United States it streams on PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel, PBS Masterpiece Amazon Channel, and WETA+.

Road Trip, The Strangers: Prey at Night, and Fanboys make useful companions to Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip.