How Ken Burns, David Schmidt and Sarah Botstein’s ‘The American Revolution’ Documentary Lends a Voice to the Underrepresented and Took 10 Years to Make

It’s total coincidence that “The American Revolution" was released by PBS less than a year ahead of the U.S.’s 250th anniversary.
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GBH Hosts Previews of Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein’s The American Revolution

Kicking off a year of programs and events commemorating the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War on April 19, 1775, GBH hosted several local community events, highlighted by a ...
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Sarah Botstein

Sarah Botstein has for more than two decades produced some of the most widely-watched and acclaimed documentaries on PBS. Her work, in collaboration with directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, includes ...
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‘I won’t work on a more important film,’ says Ken Burns about ‘American Revolution’ series

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein “didn’t realize for a long time” that the release of their upcoming six-episode series on the American Revolution would line up with the 250th ...
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In ‘The American Revolution,’ Ken Burns’ filmmakers go back to the beginning

When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premiered on PBS on Sunday, it marked the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says these films ...
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Ken Burns says ‘The American Revolution’ tells history that ‘rhymes’ with modern times

Back in 2015, documentarian Ken Burns was still working on his Vietnam War series when he decided the next project would be on the American Revolution. Soon, ten years after Burns first felt that ...