Overview
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.
Cast
Joe Keery
as John Greenwood (voice)
4 episodes
Claire Danes
as Abigail Adams (voice)
6 episodes
Dan Stevens
as (voice)
3 episodes
Bruce Davison
as (voice)
2 episodes
Reece Mccullagh
as (voice)
1 episode
Kenneth Branagh
as (voice)
6 episodes
Hugh Dancy
as Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
6 episodes
Alden Ehrenreich
as Joseph Plumb Martin (voice)
5 episodes
Samuel L. Jackson
as Caesar Sarter / Lemuel Haynes / Boston King (voice)
4 episodes
Matthew Rhys
as Thomas Paine (voice)
5 episodes
Maya Hawke
as Betsy Ambler (voice)
5 episodes
Adam Arkin
as James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
6 episodes
Josh Brolin
as George Washington (voice)
6 episodes
Tom Hanks
as (voice)
6 episodes
Marcus Davis-Orrom
as John Barker / William Bamford (voice)
2 episodes
Jonathan Groff
as (voice)
1 episode
Lindsay Mendez
as Catharine Macaulay / Mary M. Campbell (voice)
3 episodes
Tobias Menzies
as Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)
6 episodes
Josh Hutcherson
as James Potter Collins / Thomas Mellen / Jabez Campfield (voice)
3 episodes
Gene Jones
as Landon Carter / Thomas Nelson / Moses Kirkland / Thomas Young (voice)
3 episodes
Amanda Gorman
as Phillis Wheatley (voice)
2 episodes
Michael Mando
as (voice)
3 episodes
Olivier Mercier
as (voice)
1 episode
Mandy Patinkin
as Benjamin Franklin (voice)
3 episodes
Martin Czembor
as (voice)
1 episode
Chaske Spencer
as Tsiyu Gansini / Shingas (voice)
3 episodes
Michael Greyeyes
as Joseph Brant / Uhhaunauwaunmut (voice)
3 episodes
Peter Coyote
as Narrator (voice)
Keith David
as (voice)
1 episode
Michael Keaton
as Benedict Arnold (voice)
2 episodes
LaTanya Richardson Jackson
as (voice)
1 episode
Jeff Daniels
as Thomas Jefferson (voice)
4 episodes
Joel Kinnaman
as Samuel Seabury / Nils Collin / Thomas Hutchinson (voice)
2 episodes
Ethan Hawke
as Anthony Wayne / John Andrews (voice)
4 episodes
Paul Giamatti
as John Adams (voice)
5 episodes
David Oyelowo
as Olaudah Equiano / Sam (voice)
2 episodes
Lucas Hedges
as (voice)
3 episodes
Corbin Bleu
as John Joseph Henry / Daniel McCurtin / Nathaniel Bacheller / Isaac Jefferson (voice)
4 episodes
Tony Beck
as (voice)
1 episode
Tantoo Cardinal
as (voice)
2 episodes
Crew
Director
Sarah Botstein
Ken Burns
David Schmidt
Producer
Sarah Botstein
Ken Burns
Salimah Al-Amin
Executive Producer
Ken Burns
Cinematography
Buddy Squires
Writer
Geoffrey C. Ward
Assistant Sound Editor
Jacquelyn Chin
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Details
- First Aired
- November 16, 2025
- Status
- Ended
- Origin
- US
- TMDB Votes
- 35