The American Revolution 2025
Created by Ken Burns
- Documentary, War & Politics
- 1 season
- 6 episodes
- Ended
- TV-PG
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.
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Character
Grave, epic, earnest and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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Cast
- Peter CoyoteNarrator (voice)
Crew
- Ken BurnsCreator
- Buddy SquiresDirector of Photography
- David P. SchmidtProducer
- Salimah El-AminProducer
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Seasons
- Miniseries6 eps · 2025
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