The American Revolution | The Revolution that Changed the World
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary from Ken Burns.
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary from Ken Burns.
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down.
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down.
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(pleasant music) - [Speaker 1] To believe in America is to believe in possibility, possibility worth fighting for.
- The possibility of a different kind of world.
- [Speaker 2] America is predicated on an idea.
- [Speaker 3] Everything that we believe in comes out of the revolution, our ideas of liberty, equality.
It's the defining event of our history.
- The American Revolutionary Movement served as a model around the world.
- These are not English liberties, these are transcendent liberties.
These are liberties that all individuals have by the nature of being human.
- The American Revolution changed the world.
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