
First aired
November 16, 2025
Ended

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.
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Ken Burns' six-part film on the American Revolution.

Sep 23, 1990

Oct 4, 1988

Nov 15, 2009

Sep 23, 2007

Sep 14, 2014

Sep 4, 2009

Jan 8, 2021

Nov 18, 2013

Oct 31, 1973

Jun 23, 1986

Jul 13, 1978

Sep 7, 2011

Jul 7, 2019

Jul 12, 2023