The American Revolution (2025)

About This Series

The American Revolution is a war and politics series created by Ken Burns. Its leading cast includes Peter Coyote, Adam Arkin and Josh Brolin. It premiered on November 16, 2025 on PBS. TMDB lists 1 season and 6 episodes so far and has ended.

Synopsis

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.

Synopsis from TMDB.

Official Trailer

The American Revolution | A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt | Official T · plays from YouTube

• The American Revolution Extended Trailer | Premieres Nov. 16 on PBS | Ken Burns Documentar (opens YouTube)

Cast

• 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
• Craig Ferguson John Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice) 5 episodes
• Paul Giamatti John Adams (voice) 5 episodes
• Maya Hawke Betsy Ambler (voice) 5 episodes
• Laura Linney Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice) 5 episodes
• Edward Norton Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice) 5 episodes
• Matthew Rhys Thomas Paine (voice) 5 episodes

Seasons

• Miniseries2025 · 6 episodes
• Specials2025 · 1 episode