REDISCOVERING ALEXANDER HAMILTON is hosted and written by prominent author and journalist Richard Brookhiser. The documentary focuses on Hamilton’s character in six chronological segments. The film is not meant to be “the definitive chronology of Alexander Hamilton,” but rather a look at particular traits in his character – his strengths and weakness – how they were shaped into being, and how they played out within the new nation that was being created around him. To tell that story, the documentary combines traditional documentary techniques with Brookhiser’s exploration of Hamilton’s legacy and life in contemporary America. The film takes the viewer to the Caribbean Islands where Hamilton was born, to Yorktown and Wall Street where he fought and worked, to Harlem and Weehaken, New Jersey, where he lived and died. A Treasury Secretary, Supreme Court Justice, publishers, pornographers, lawyers, warriors, Calypso singers and urban gang members speak about money, rights, news, war, sex and honor – all the themes that shaped Hamilton’s life, which led him to his early death resulting in modern capitalist America. REDISCOVERING ALEXANDER HAMILTON is the second film in the REDISCOVERING documentary film series. The first film, REDISCOVERING GEORGE WASHINGTON, aired on PBS in 2002.
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High school students relive Alexander Hamilton's heroic charge of a British redoubt at Yorktown.
