A Great Awakening dramatizes the unlikely friendship between itinerant evangelist George Whitefield and Benjamin Franklin, framing the First Great Awakening's Christian revival as foundational to American liberty and the survival of the Constitutional Convention. The Traditional label follows naturally from the film's core argument: that spiritual rebirth in Christ was not merely a historical footnote but the indispensable glue holding a fractured nation together. Founding-era white male leaders and Protestant faith are portrayed positively and without critique. No countervailing progressive signals appear. The result is a faith-forward historical drama that sits comfortably alongside other Christian-audience period films, confident in its thesis and unlikely to trouble viewers who share it.