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The American Revolution

  • TV series
  • 2025
  • TV-PG
  • 1 season
  • 6 episodes

Created by Ken Burns

6.1

TMDB audience rating
6.1 out of 10 from 48 votes

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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.

Roughly 13h 6m to watch every episode. This is an estimate: 6 episodes at the latest episode runtime of 131 minutes.

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Series cast and crew

  • Peter Coyote

    Peter CoyoteNarrator (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Adam Arkin

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

  • Josh Brolin

    Josh BrolinGeorge Washington (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Hugh Dancy

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

  • Claire Danes

    Claire DanesAbigail Adams (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Tom Hanks

    Tom Hanks(voice)
    6 episodes

  • Damian Lewis

    Damian LewisKing George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Tobias Menzies

    Tobias MenziesEdmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Liev Schreiber

    Liev SchreiberSamuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
    6 episodes

  • Kenneth Branagh

    Kenneth Branagh(voice)
    6 episodes

  • Josh Charles

    Josh CharlesJoseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Alden Ehrenreich

    Alden EhrenreichJoseph Plumb Martin (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Craig Ferguson

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

  • Paul Giamatti

    Paul GiamattiJohn Adams (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Maya Hawke

    Maya HawkeBetsy Ambler (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Laura Linney

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

  • Edward Norton

    Edward NortonBenjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)
    5 episodes

  • Matthew Rhys

    Matthew RhysThomas Paine (voice)
    5 episodes

Created by
Ken Burns
Network
PBS

Seasons and episodes