The American Revolution
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.
- Created by
- Ken Burns
- Episodes
- 6
- Status
- Ended
Seasons
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Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
Adam Arkin
James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
Josh Brolin
George Washington (voice)
Hugh Dancy
Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
Claire Danes
Abigail Adams (voice)
Tom Hanks
(voice)
Damian Lewis
King George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice)
Tobias Menzies
Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)
Liev Schreiber
Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
Kenneth Branagh
(voice)
Josh Charles
Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
Alden Ehrenreich
Joseph Plumb Martin (voice)
Craig Ferguson
John Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice)
Paul Giamatti
John Adams (voice)
Maya Hawke
Betsy Ambler (voice)
Laura Linney
Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)
Edward Norton
Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)
Matthew Rhys
Thomas Paine (voice)
Charlotte Hacke
Friederike Riedesel / Hannah Davis / Lucy Knox / Martha Reeves (voice)
Ethan Hawke
Anthony Wayne / John Andrews (voice)
