The American Revolution
2025 · TV Series · TV-PG · 713 min · ★ 5.7 · 85% critics
This miniseries explores the American Revolution as more than a fight for independence, tracing how it unfolded as a local civil conflict and a global struggle at the same time. Spanning battlefields and communities from the Atlantic coast to far beyond, it follows the era’s people through victory, defeat, and a crisis that reshaped a new nation and the wider world.
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Watch free on Amazon Prime Video — also streaming on Curiosity University, The Great Courses Signature Collection and PBS Documentaries.
12 hours to watch · 6 episodes.
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Details
- Years
- 2025
- Release date
- 2025-11-16
- Network
- PBS
- Language
- English
- Rated
- TV-PG
- Runtime
- 713 min
- Critic score
- 85/100
- TMDB rating
- 5.7/10 (38 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy this if you want a sweeping, people-focused history that includes uncomfortable context alongside major events; Not for you if you want a tight, purely battle-and-founders overview or a politics-free retelling like WWII in HD.
Pros: informative and wide-ranging; vivid quotes and perspectives; strong visuals and artwork | Cons: pacing can feel sprawling; emphasis choices frustrate some; perceived political bias
Themes
- american revolution
- revolutionary war
- detached
- america
- introspective
- documentary
- history
- american history
- apologetic
- embarrassed
Cast & crew
Peter Coyote
as Narrator (voice)
Adam Arkin
as James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
Josh Brolin
as George Washington (voice)
Josh Charles
as Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
Hugh Dancy
as Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
Claire Danes
as Abigail Adams (voice)
- MD
Marcus Davis-Orrom
as John Barker / William Bamford (voice)
Alden Ehrenreich
as Joseph Plumb Martin (voice)
Craig Ferguson
as John Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice)
Paul Giamatti
as John Adams (voice)
Directed by Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, David Schmidt
Episodes1 season · 6 episodes
Season 16 episodes
- S1E1In Order to Be Free (May 1754 – May 1775)116mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E2An Asylum for Mankind (May 1775 – July 1776)124mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E3The Times That Try Men's Souls (July 1776 – January 1777)115mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E4Conquer by a Drawn Game (January 1777 – February 1778)116mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E5The Soul of All America (December 1777 – May 1780)114mAmazon Prime Video
- S1E6The Most Sacred Thing (May 1780 – Onward)131mAmazon Prime Video