Ken Burns Series ‘The American Revolution’ Headed For London TV Screenings With PBS Distribution
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Ken Burns‘ latest American history series is headed for the London TV Screenings. PBS Distribution has taken global distribution rights and is bringing The American Revolution to the event, which is held in the UK capital at the end of the month.
Veteran filmmaker Burns directed and produced the epic factual series about the formation of the U.S. along with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and written by long-term collaborator Geoffrey C.
Ward (The Vietnam War). Show is billed as “an expansive look at the virtues and contradictions of the war and the birth of the United States of America,” following “dozens of figures from a wide variety of backgrounds,” including rank-and-file Continental soldiers and American militiamen, 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 civilians living in North America.
The sales arm of American public broadcaster PBS will present a first look at the series at its screening on Wednesday, February 26 at 3pm local time.
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