Join WXXI for a special screening of clips from Ken Burns’ new docu-series, The American Revolution.
WXXI is proud to host this free screening of a selection of clips from a new six-part film from Ken Burns that explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion.
Details
Monday, November 3, 2025
The Little Theatre, L1
Doors open at 6 p.m.
The presentation begins at 6:30 p.m.
More about The American Revolution, premiering Sunday, November 16 on WXXI-TV
The American Revolution examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new form of government that radically reshaped the continent and inspired centuries of democratic movements around the globe.
An expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and the birth of the United States of America, the film follows dozens of figures from a wide variety of backgrounds. Through their individual stories, viewers experience the war through the memories of the men and women who experienced it: the rank-and-file Continental soldiers and American militiamen (some of them teenagers), Patriot political and military leaders, British Army officers, American Loyalists, Native soldiers and civilians, enslaved and free African Americans, German soldiers in the British service, French and Spanish allies, and various civilians living in North America, Loyalist as well as Patriot, including many made refugees by the war.
The Revolution began a movement for people around the world to imagine new and better futures for themselves, their nations, and for humanity. It declared American independence with promises that we continue to strive for. The American Revolution opened the door to advance civil liberties and human rights, and it asked questions that we are still trying to answer today.