Filmmaker Ken Burns examines the 'American Revolution'
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CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History partnered with WETA television and the National Endowment for the Humanities to present “The Roosevelts: A ...
Filmmaker Ken Burns highlighted Rhode Island's significant role in the American Revolution while promoting his new PBS series. Burns identified Nathanael Greene of Coventry as the second most important general of the war, after George Washington.
Ken Burns’ The Roosevelts: An Intimate History is a seven-night, 14-episode documentary that premieres on Sunday, September 14 at 8 p.m. THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members ...
In his newest PBS series, Ken Burns trains his slow-zooming gaze on the American Revolution and finds a bloody mess led by a deeply flawed commander, fought in guerrilla style by soldiers as young as 14, leading to an unlikely victory that toppled a monarch.