Series · War & Politics, Documentary
The American Revolution (2025)Specials
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
0/1 watched- Episode 1: An Inside Look39 min · Aug 8, 2025
