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  • To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of Thomas Paine (2016)
  • TV Movie | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
To Begin the World Over Again: The Life of Thomas Paine (2016)
TV Movie | 60 min | Documentary, Biography, History
Thomas Paine's life was a great arc. He arrived in Philadelphia as a remarkably unremarkable thirty-seven-year-old only to change the world, and then have the world he changed turn its back on him. He ignited the American Revolution, ...See moreThomas Paine's life was a great arc. He arrived in Philadelphia as a remarkably unremarkable thirty-seven-year-old only to change the world, and then have the world he changed turn its back on him. He ignited the American Revolution, defined the French Revolution, and championed the Age of Reason, yet he died largely ignored and disdained. His ideas about democracy, equality, slavery, the Bible, pensions, health-care, education, and morality would have created a very different America had the other founding fathers listened to this most radical one. In this film, Paine will take you on this journey, from his birth to his death, with all the extraordinary events on the way. Written by Ian Ruskin See less
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Director
Haskell Wexler
Writer
Ian Ruskin (written by)
Producers
Alan Barker (producer) | Stuart MacGuire (producer) | Ian Ruskin (producer) | June Stoddard (producer)
Composers
Graham Moore (music composed and performed by) | Joe Romano (music composed and performed by)
Cinematographers
Joan Churchill | Battiste Fenwick | Bill Megalos | Haskell Wexler (director of photography)
Editor
Keith Robinson
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2016 (United States)

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Elliott Gould primary photo
Elliott Gould
Self - Narrator (voice) Self - Narrator (voice)   See fewer
M*A*S*H (1970)
Ian Ruskin primary photo
Ian Ruskin
Self - Thomas Paine Self - Thomas Paine   See fewer
The Omen (2006)
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