“Liberty of Conscience: The Founding of Maryland”

A 2025 documentary directed by Emmy® award-winning filmmaker Drew Perkins

Liberty of Conscience: The Founding of Maryland

This story “begins with Sir George Calvert, a man whose radical vision for Maryland promised a new kind of liberty for settlers, but left behind a complicated and conflicting legacy.”

Through powerful reenactments and expert insights, this film explores the belief, ambition, and contradictions behind one of America's earliest founding stories, and the man who started it."

From the IMDB (Internet Movie Database)

PBS notes; "Liberty of Conscience: The Founding of Maryland" documents the fascinating stories surrounding the founding of colonial Maryland. Examining the Calvert family’s passionate quest for a place in the Americas to exercise religious freedom and the challenges they faced. At the heart is George Calvert’s notion of a Liberty of Conscience representing the freedom for people to worship as they choose.