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TV series

The American Revolution

2025 · TV-PG · 1 season · 6 episodes

Created by Ken Burns

6.1

TMDB audience score
48 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

About 13h 6m to watch every episode. An estimate: 6 episodes at the latest episode runtime of 131 minutes.

Where to watch

Official options in the United States:

Subscription

  • PBS
  • PBS Documentaries Amazon Channel

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Trailer

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Main cast

  • Peter Coyote
    Narrator (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Adam Arkin
    James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Josh Brolin
    George Washington (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Hugh Dancy
    Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Claire Danes
    Abigail Adams (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Tom Hanks
    (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Damian Lewis
    King George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Tobias Menzies
    Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Liev Schreiber
    Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Kenneth Branagh
    (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Josh Charles
    Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Alden Ehrenreich
    Joseph Plumb Martin (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Craig Ferguson
    John Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Paul Giamatti
    John Adams (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Maya Hawke
    Betsy Ambler (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Laura Linney
    Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Edward Norton
    Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Matthew Rhys
    Thomas Paine (voice)
    5 episodes

Seasons