The American Revolution | Premieres Nov. 16

Premieres Nov. 16

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Official Trailer | The Revolution that Changed the World

Official Trailer | 2m 20s | THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary from Ken Burns.

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Inside Look | Voices of the Revolution

Behind the Scenes | 10m 33s | Filmmakers discuss how they used stories of both well-known and lesser known figures.

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Inside Look | Sounds of the Revolution

Behind the Scenes | 5m 13s | The filmmakers on how they tapped a broad range of influences to recreate the music of the era.

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Inside Look | People Just Like Us

Behind the Scenes | 3m 37s | The filmmakers on how understanding the people of the Revolution can help us understand who we are.

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Inside Look | Our Origin Story

Behind the Scenes | 6m 18s | Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt on the challenges of telling America's origin story.

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Inside Look | Making the Revolution

Behind the Scenes | 6m 29s | The filmmakers discuss how they crafted imagery to help tell the story of the American Revolution.

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Inside Look | Finding Facts

Behind the Scenes | 3m 57s | The filmmakers discuss how the story of The American Revolution came together.

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About the Film

Thirteen American colonies unite in rebellion, win an eight-year war to secure their independence, and establish a new form of government that would inspire democratic movements at home and around the globe. What begins as a political clash between colonists and the British government grows into a bloody struggle that will engage more than two dozen nations and forever change the world.

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Explore The Revolution

Two of America’s greatest historical storytellers, Ken Burns and Lin-Manuel Miranda, discuss The American Revolution with students at an interactive event about the lessons we can learn from America’s founding story, hosted in NYC’s historic Trinity Church NYC.

"The Americans have made a discovery, or think they have made one..."

Six and a half years after Lexington and Concord, an allied siege at Yorktown brought the fighting to an end. British forces surrendered—and the world would never be the same.

First-look Clip: 'No One Expects Country Farmers Are Going to Hold Off a Trained Army'

Adams grasped what was at stake in the summer of 1776. In designing a new nation, every decision the founders made—about independence, confederation, treaties with foreign powers—had the potential to ripple forward, shaping "the lives and liberties of millions yet unborn."

Mercy Otis Warren

George Washington's most Googled questions

First-look Clip: George Washington Goes to War

"Step by step the demands of America have risen"

First-look Clip: The First Shot

"Our cause is the cause of all mankind"

“There’s something extraordinarily important about our founding that is missed.”

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

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