Miniseries · ARTE
The American Revolution
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Peter Coyote
Narrator (voice)
6 eps
Adam Arkin
James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
6 eps
Josh Brolin
George Washington (voice)
6 eps
Josh Charles
Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
5 eps
Hugh Dancy
Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
6 eps
Claire Danes
Abigail Adams (voice)
6 eps
Marcus Davis-Orrom
John Barker / William Bamford (voice)
2 eps
Alden Ehrenreich
Joseph Plumb Martin (voice)
5 eps
Craig Ferguson
John Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice)
5 eps
Paul Giamatti
John Adams (voice)
5 eps
Amanda Gorman
Phillis Wheatley (voice)
2 eps
Charlotte Hacke
Friederike Riedesel / Hannah Davis / Lucy Knox / Martha Reeves (voice)
4 eps
Tom Hanks
(voice)
6 eps
Ethan Hawke
Anthony Wayne / John Andrews (voice)
4 eps
Maya Hawke
Betsy Ambler (voice)
5 eps
Samuel L. Jackson
Caesar Sarter / Lemuel Haynes / Boston King (voice)
4 eps
Joe Keery
John Greenwood (voice)
4 eps
Joel Kinnaman
Samuel Seabury / Nils Collin / Thomas Hutchinson (voice)
2 eps
Damian Lewis
King George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice)
6 eps
Laura Linney
Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)
5 eps
Carolyn McCormick
Hannah Griffiths / Hannah Winthrop / Esther Reed (voice)
4 eps
Lindsay Mendez
Catharine Macaulay / Mary M. Campbell (voice)
3 eps
Tobias Menzies
Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)
6 eps
Edward Norton
Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)
5 eps
Mandy Patinkin
Benjamin Franklin (voice)
3 eps
Jon Proudstar
Canassatego / Chainbreaker / Old Smoke / Shawnee Delegate (voice)
4 eps
Liev Schreiber
Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
6 eps
Chaske Spencer
Tsiyu Gansini / Shingas (voice)
3 eps
Meryl Streep
Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
3 eps
Corbin Bleu
John Joseph Henry / Daniel McCurtin / Nathaniel Bacheller / Isaac Jefferson (voice)
4 eps
Kenneth Branagh
(voice)
6 eps
Jeff Daniels
Thomas Jefferson (voice)
4 eps
Bruce Davison
(voice)
2 eps
Domhnall Gleeson
Loftus Cliffe / Roger Lamb / John MacPherson / John Bowater / William Barton (voice)
4 eps
Michael Greyeyes
Joseph Brant / Uhhaunauwaunmut (voice)
3 eps
Josh Hutcherson
James Potter Collins / Thomas Mellen / Jabez Campfield (voice)
3 eps
Gene Jones
Landon Carter / Thomas Nelson / Moses Kirkland / Thomas Young (voice)
3 eps
Michael Keaton
Benedict Arnold (voice)
2 eps
Josh Lucas
George Rogers Clark / John Glover / Drury Mathias (voice)
4 eps
The story
What it's about
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.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Ken BurnsProducer
- Sarah BotsteinProducer
- Salimah El-AminProducer
- David P. SchmidtProducer
Writing
- Geoffrey C. WardWriter
Direction
- Ken BurnsDirector
- Sarah BotsteinDirector
- David P. SchmidtDirector
Cinematography
- Buddy SquiresDirector of Photography
Where to watch
Streaming
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