Series · War & Politics, Documentary
The American Revolution (2025)
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.
- Creator
- Ken Burns
- Writers
- Geoffrey C. Ward
- Network
- PBS
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- First aired
- November 16, 2025
- Status
- Ended
Cast
Peter CoyoteNarrator (voice)
Adam ArkinJames Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
Josh BrolinGeorge Washington (voice)
Hugh DancyHugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
Claire DanesAbigail Adams (voice)
Tom Hanks(voice)
Damian LewisKing George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice)
Tobias MenziesEdmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)
Liev SchreiberSamuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
Kenneth Branagh(voice)
Josh CharlesJoseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
Alden EhrenreichJoseph Plumb Martin (voice)
Craig FergusonJohn Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice)
Paul GiamattiJohn Adams (voice)
Maya HawkeBetsy Ambler (voice)
Laura LinneySarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)
Edward NortonBenjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)
Matthew RhysThomas Paine (voice)
Charlotte HackeFriederike Riedesel / Hannah Davis / Lucy Knox / Martha Reeves (voice)
Ethan HawkeAnthony Wayne / John Andrews (voice)
Episodes
0/6 watched- Episode 1: In Order to Be Free (May 1754 – May 1775)1 h 56 min · Nov 16, 2025
- Episode 2: An Asylum for Mankind (May 1775 – July 1776)2 h 4 min · Nov 17, 2025
- Episode 3: The Times That Try Men's Souls (July 1776 – January 1777)1 h 55 min · Nov 18, 2025
- Episode 4: Conquer by a Drawn Game (January 1777 – February 1778)1 h 56 min · Nov 19, 2025
- Episode 5: The Soul of All America (December 1777 – May 1780)1 h 54 min · Nov 20, 2025
- Episode 6: The Most Sacred Thing (May 1780 – Onward)2 h 11 min · Nov 21, 2025
