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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.
Credits
Ken Burns
director
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
Adam Arkin
James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
Josh Brolin
George Washington (voice)
Josh Charles
Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
Hugh Dancy
Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
Claire Danes
Abigail Adams (voice)
Alden Ehrenreich
Joseph Plumb Martin (voice)
Craig Ferguson
John Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice)
Paul Giamatti
John Adams (voice)
Amanda Gorman
Phillis Wheatley (voice)
Charlotte Hacke
Friederike Riedesel / Hannah Davis / Lucy Knox / Martha Reeves (voice)
Tom Hanks
(voice)
Ethan Hawke
Anthony Wayne / John Andrews (voice)
Maya Hawke
Betsy Ambler (voice)
Samuel L. Jackson
Caesar Sarter / Lemuel Haynes / Boston King (voice)
Joe Keery
John Greenwood (voice)
Joel Kinnaman
Samuel Seabury / Nils Collin / Thomas Hutchinson (voice)
Damian Lewis
King George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice)
Laura Linney
Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)
Carolyn McCormick
Hannah Griffiths / Hannah Winthrop / Esther Reed (voice)
Lindsay Mendez
Catharine Macaulay / Mary M. Campbell (voice)
Tobias Menzies
Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)
Edward Norton
Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)
Mandy Patinkin
Benjamin Franklin (voice)
Jon Proudstar
Canassatego / Chainbreaker / Old Smoke / Shawnee Delegate (voice)
Matthew Rhys
Thomas Paine (voice)
Liev Schreiber
Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
Chaske Spencer
Tsiyu Gansini / Shingas (voice)
Meryl Streep
Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
Corbin Bleu
John Joseph Henry / Daniel McCurtin / Nathaniel Bacheller / Isaac Jefferson (voice)
Kenneth Branagh
(voice)
Jeff Daniels
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
Bruce Davison
(voice)
Domhnall Gleeson
Loftus Cliffe / Roger Lamb / John MacPherson / John Bowater / William Barton (voice)
Michael Greyeyes
Joseph Brant / Uhhaunauwaunmut (voice)
Josh Hutcherson
James Potter Collins / Thomas Mellen / Jabez Campfield (voice)
Gene Jones
Landon Carter / Thomas Nelson / Moses Kirkland / Thomas Young (voice)
Michael Keaton
Benedict Arnold (voice)
Josh Lucas
George Rogers Clark / John Glover / Drury Mathias (voice)
Joe Morton
Elisha Bostwick / Elias Dayton (voice)
David Oyelowo
Olaudah Equiano / Sam (voice)
Yul Vazquez
Henry Knox / José de Gálvez (voice)
Bill Camp
(voice)
Keith David
(voice)
Christian Friedel
(voice)
Dan Stevens
(voice)
Lucas Hedges
(voice)
Michael Mando
(voice)
Jeremiah Bitsui
(voice)
Tantoo Cardinal
(voice)
Jonathan Groff
(voice)
Tracy Letts
(voice)
Wendell Pierce
(voice)
Morgan Freeman
(voice)
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
(voice)
Reece Mccullagh
(voice)
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