TV Series2025 · PBS · Ended · 119 min
The American Revolution was a sprawling conflict—part independence struggle, part civil war, part global showdown—that reshaped lives from New England to the South and across the Atlantic, uniting thirteen colonies in a rebellion that birthed a lasting republic and revealed the triumphs and hardships of the generation who fought it.
Who is in it. Open anyone to see what else they are in.
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
Josh Charles
Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
5 episodes
Hugh Dancy
Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
6 episodes
Claire Danes
Abigail Adams (voice)
6 episodes
Marcus Davis-Orrom
John Barker / William Bamford (voice)
2 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
Amanda Gorman
Phillis Wheatley (voice)
2 episodes
Charlotte Hacke
Friederike Riedesel / Hannah Davis / Lucy Knox / Martha Reeves (voice)
4 episodes
Tom Hanks
(voice)
6 episodes
Ethan Hawke
Anthony Wayne / John Andrews (voice)
4 episodes
Maya Hawke
Betsy Ambler (voice)
5 episodes
Samuel L. Jackson
Caesar Sarter / Lemuel Haynes / Boston King (voice)
4 episodes
Joe Keery
John Greenwood (voice)
4 episodes
Joel Kinnaman
Samuel Seabury / Nils Collin / Thomas Hutchinson (voice)
2 episodes
Damian Lewis
King George III / Nicholas Cresswell / John Andre / Bartholomew James (voice)
6 episodes
Laura Linney
Sarah Logan Fisher / Sarah Morris Mifflin / Eliza Wilkinson / Eliza Lucas Pickney (voice)
5 episodes
Carolyn McCormick
Hannah Griffiths / Hannah Winthrop / Esther Reed (voice)
4 episodes
Lindsay Mendez
Catharine Macaulay / Mary M. Campbell (voice)
3 episodes
Tobias Menzies
Edmund Burke / Ambrose Serle / Cornwallis / William Pitt (voice)
6 episodes
Edward Norton
Benjamin Rush / Philip Vickers Fithian / Philip Schuyler (voice)
5 episodes
Mandy Patinkin
Benjamin Franklin (voice)
3 episodes
Jon Proudstar
Canassatego / Chainbreaker / Old Smoke / Shawnee Delegate (voice)
4 episodes
Matthew Rhys
Thomas Paine (voice)
5 episodes
Liev Schreiber
Samuel Adams / Nathaniel Greene / Lewis Beebe (voice)
6 episodes
Chaske Spencer
Tsiyu Gansini / Shingas (voice)
3 episodes
Meryl Streep
Mercy Otis Warren (voice)
3 episodes
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