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The American Revolution
Dir. Ken Burns
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The American Revolution
Documentary
War & Politics
Director
Ken Burns
Screenplay
Geoffrey C. Ward
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.
Seasons
1
Episodes
6
Country
United States of America
Status
Ended
Cast
Adam Arkin
James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice) · 6 eps
Josh Brolin
George Washington (voice) · 6 eps
Hugh Dancy
Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice) · 6 eps
Claire Danes
Abigail Adams (voice) · 6 eps
Tom Hanks
(voice) · 6 eps
Damian Lewis
King George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice) · 6 eps
Tobias Menzies
Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice) · 6 eps
Liev Schreiber
Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice) · 6 eps
Kenneth Branagh
(voice) · 6 eps
Josh Charles
Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice) · 5 eps
Alden Ehrenreich
Joseph Plumb Martin (voice) · 5 eps
Craig Ferguson
John Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice) · 5 eps
Paul Giamatti
John Adams (voice) · 5 eps
Maya Hawke
Betsy Ambler (voice) · 5 eps
Laura Linney
Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice) · 5 eps
Edward Norton
Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice) · 5 eps
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