Thomas Paine: The Most Valuable Englishman Ever
Jan 01 1982
•1h 29m
•Documentary
When in 1776 the United States of America broke away from Britain, a country without a written constitution, with an established Church and an unelected House of Lords, Thomas Paine, an artisan from Thetford in Norfolk, England, made a call for freedom that is still reverberating around the world today.
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Kenneth Griffith
himself (presenter)
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