The Founders knew they were doing something unprecedented and historic when they crafted the American government some 250 years ago.
As quoted in the movie trailer from David Webster’s Eulogy for Adams and Jeffers, “It cannot be denied that with America and in America a new era commences in human affairs."
The American Miracle is a period piece produced by Heroic Pictures and Thinking Man Films that traces the lives of the men who risked everything to found America and change the world. It is inspired by the book of the same name by the author Michael Medved.
The film is being released in anticipation of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and it will only be in theaters nationwide June 9-11.
Director Tim Mahoney says God's protection was on those lives, including that of our first president, who had several horses shot out from under him in battle.
“From the time he (George Washington) was a young man, he had a sense of purpose. He studied the whole understanding of virtue and what it meant to be virtuous, but I think he knew, somehow, that he had a role to play in history," Mahoney states.
He says the exceptional men who invented the American experiment that has lasted for two and a half centuries were uniquely suited for the task.
“They structured the government to understand that we needed to respect each other's rights on one pillar, but on the other, to know that if someone had absolute power, that they could do evil thing."
These men were just as certain that they were under divine guidance as well.
As Benjamin Franklin stated in the movie trailer, “We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it."
