The American Revolution
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 wo…
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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.
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Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice) · 6 episodes
Adam Arkin
James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice) · 6 episodes
Josh Brolin
George Washington (voice) · 6 episodes
Hugh Dancy
Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice) · 6 episodes
Claire Danes
Abigail Adams (voice) · 6 episodes
Tom Hanks
(voice) · 6 episodes
Damian Lewis
King George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice) · 6 episodes
Tobias Menzies
Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice) · 6 episodes
Liev Schreiber
Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice) · 6 episodes
Kenneth Branagh
(voice) · 6 episodes
Josh Charles
Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice) · 5 episodes
Alden Ehrenreich
Joseph Plumb Martin (voice) · 5 episodes
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