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16/11/2025 Documentary, War & Politics 2h 11m
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Overview

The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It impacted millions from Vermont’s Green Mountains to the swamps of South Carolina, from Indian Country to the Iberian Peninsula. In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American Revolution turned the world upside-down. Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic Coast united in rebellion, won their independence, and established a republic that still endures. The American Revolution will present the story of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that they lived through.

Top billed cast

  1. Peter Coyote

    Narrator (voice)

  2. Adam Arkin

    James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)

  3. Josh Brolin

    George Washington (voice)

  4. Hugh Dancy

    Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)

  5. Claire Danes

    Abigail Adams (voice)

  6. Tom Hanks

    (voice)

  7. Damian Lewis

    King George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice)

  8. Tobias Menzies

    Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)

  9. Liev Schreiber

    Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)

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Current Season

Season 1

 2025 | 6 Episodes

Ken Burns' six-part film on the American Revolution.

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Reviews

A review by heygarrett
Written by heygarrett on 2025-12-28
Very informative! There was so much I didn't know. It gives a real sense of feelings and motivations that I didn't gleam from textbooks and lectures in school. And with quite a cast to read quotes from history!

I highly recommend this to anyone who wants a better understanding of how America started.
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Status
Ended

Original Language
English

Original Name
The American Revolution

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