{"id":4608,"date":"2026-07-30T18:08:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4608"},"modified":"2026-07-30T18:08:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T18:08:18","slug":"ken-burns-reopens-americas-founding-wounds-in-the-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4608","title":{"rendered":"Ken Burns Reopens America\u2019s Founding Wounds in \u2018The American Revolution\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tIn his latest documentary, <em>The American Revolution<\/em>, Emmy-winning filmmaker Ken Burns argues that America\u2019s founding conflict was not a tidy, unanimous march toward independence, but a messy, agonizing civil war defined as much by its profound contradictions as its high ideals.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4606\">Reality TV Bigwig Mike Darnell Signs Overall Deal With Netflix<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cWe\u2019re obviously very polarized right now, but we were divided at our founding, and we\u2019ve been divided at every celebration of the American Revolution,\u201d says Sarah Botstein, who co-directed the sweeping six-part, 12-hour docuseries with Burns and David Schmidt. \u201cWe are a complicated country. We are not quite sure what kind of country we want to be, and we are continuously debating and swaying one view to the other. That is true in pretty much all of American history.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMore than nine years in the making, <em>American Revolution<\/em> became the first PBS title to crack Nielsen\u2019s top 10 streaming ratings. The miniseries spans from the outbreak of the French and Indian War in 1754 through the Revolutionary War and its aftermath, detailing the rising colonial resistance to British rule along the way.<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>American Revolution<\/em> features more than 400 voices and nearly 200 first-person accounts read by more than 50 actors, including Meryl Streep, Samuel L. Jackson and Tom Hanks. \u201cThere\u2019s been so much new history written specifically since 1976, [with] different generations of scholars looking at different parts of the history and bringing different people to life through their letters and diaries,\u201d Botstein says, also crediting the extensive research of show writer Geoffrey C. Ward.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlongside familiar figures like the Founding Fathers, the filmmakers sought to elevate the stories of women, children and people of color, who Botstein emphasizes were already \u201cbaked into the history\u201d of America\u2019s founding. The series examines how Black and Indigenous peoples were largely forced to fight against their own interests \u2014 enslaved Black people were exploited for freedom by both sides, while Native nations faced accelerated expansion, genocide and cultural erasure regardless of the alliance they chose.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=4604\">Spider-Man: The Last Blockbuster Franchise Nobody\u2019s Managed to Screw Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\u201cThe American Revolution is obviously in part about breaking away from a mother country and a very serious civil war where families and communities were torn apart,\u201d Botstein says, \u201cbut it was also a war for the prize of North America and what is and should be remembered as Indian land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\tHaving \u201cspent a lot of my professional life considering the cost of war,\u201d Botstein says, she thinks her work on Burns\u2019 Vietnam War and World War II docs helped her \u201cthink about ways to visualize a war that seems very far away and sanitized in our history books.\u201d This effort to challenge sanitized narratives feels timely as the nation reexamines how its foundational stories are told: \u201cWe have a responsibility to every generation to tell good history so they can understand the geopolitics of where we are right now.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n<em>This story first appeared in a July stand-alone issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine. 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