Ken Burns' 'American Revolution' Series Explores America's Birth and Its Lessons
TL;DR
Ken Burns' six-part documentary 'The American Revolution' offers a thorough, patriotic, and somewhat repetitive exploration of the war for independence, connecting key battles, figures, and themes from 1754 to the ratification of the Constitution, while highlighting internal conflicts and hypocrisies of the era.
- ‘The American Revolution’ Review: Ken Burns Tackles the War for Independence in Patriotic, Pragmatic and Familiar Form The Hollywood Reporter
- Ken Burns on America's origin story: "The most important event since the birth of Christ" CBS News
- ‘Human nature doesn’t change.’ Ken Burns on what we learn from the American Revolution. The Boston Globe
- Ken Burns' new 'American Revolution' series with a focus on SC is almost here Post and Courier
- Ken Burns Knows Who Won the American Revolution: “Ne’er-Do-Wells, Felons, and Immigrants” Vanity Fair
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