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Ken Burns’ new documentary series The American Revolution is a six-part, twelve-hour account of the eight-year war through which the thirteen British colonies fought for independence and created the United States. Premiering on November 16, 2025—with all episodes simultaneously available for streaming on PBS’s website and app—the series traces the conflict from the deepening imperial crisis of the 1760s through the military turning points at Saratoga and Yorktown to the unsettled postwar landscape, weaving together high politics, battlefield strategy, and the experiences of Indigenous nations, enslaved and free Black Americans, Loyalists and rank-and-file soldiers
Directed by Burns with longtime collaborators Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and scripted by Geoffrey C. Ward, the film features Peter Coyote’s familiar narration alongside a large voice cast. Prominent voice actors include Josh Brolin as George Washington, Paul Giamatti as John Adams, Jeff Daniels as Thomas Jefferson, Matthew Rhys as Tom Paine, Claire Danes as Abigail Adams, and Meryl Streep as the diarist Mercy Otis Warren.
In place of the abundant historical photography available to Burns’ earlier projects, most memorably in his landmark The Civil War series (1990), The American Revolution leans on revolutionary-era paintings, engravings, maps, documents, and large-scale but de-centered reenactments, deploying the trademark slow pans, zooms and musical cues across canvases, portraits and landscapes to create visual continuity in a world where most individuals never sat for a portrait.
comrade stalin
moscow
Ken Burns’ new documentary series The American Revolution is a six-part, twelve-hour account of the eight-year war through which the thirteen British colonies fought for independence and created the United States. Premiering on November 16, 2025—with all episodes simultaneously available for streaming on PBS’s website and app—the series traces the conflict from the deepening imperial crisis of the 1760s through the military turning points at Saratoga and Yorktown to the unsettled postwar landscape, weaving together high politics, battlefield strategy, and the experiences of Indigenous nations, enslaved and free Black Americans, Loyalists and rank-and-file soldiers
Directed by Burns with longtime collaborators Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and scripted by Geoffrey C. Ward, the film features Peter Coyote’s familiar narration alongside a large voice cast. Prominent voice actors include Josh Brolin as George Washington, Paul Giamatti as John Adams, Jeff Daniels as Thomas Jefferson, Matthew Rhys as Tom Paine, Claire Danes as Abigail Adams, and Meryl Streep as the diarist Mercy Otis Warren.
In place of the abundant historical photography available to Burns’ earlier projects, most memorably in his landmark The Civil War series (1990), The American Revolution leans on revolutionary-era paintings, engravings, maps, documents, and large-scale but de-centered reenactments, deploying the trademark slow pans, zooms and musical cues across canvases, portraits and landscapes to create visual continuity in a world where most individuals never sat for a portrait.
Ken Burns’ <em>The American Revolution</em>
Audiences cannot help but grasp the relevance of the film’s subject—a population revolting against tyranny and despotism in the name of equality and inalienable rights.
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comrade stalin
moscow
