Has anyone else been watching The Revolution by Ken Burns?

[zanana1]

I am blown away. There's so much more to it than I thought. I can't wait for the next episode.

[CousinIT]

1. YES. Caught the first two episodes. How many are there?

I probably missed the next one(s). I may have to get the DVD. It's worth having.

[snowybirdie]

5. Six Episodes

Running through Friday. Love it. So relevant to today.

[efhmc]

7. Will it be rerun?

[snowybirdie]

8. We're watching

On the PBS app.

[AverageOldGuy]

9. Several ways to see all six episodes

DVD. PBS has released a DVD with all six episodes plus lots of background material. Can find it on Amazon as well as on PBS site.

PBS PASSPORT. This is the PBS streaming service. There you will find everything from Downton Abbey to All Creatures Great and Small to every Ken Burns production.

PBS STATION RERUNS. I'm in Northern Virginia where we have several PBS stations, all of them are re-running the episodes immediately after each night as well as rerunning during the next days. No doubt the series will pop up on your local PBS station.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

34. Greetings. I've been watching over the air on WMPT, channel 22.

I use Gaithersburg for my ZIP, because it includes channel 25. The White House ZIP code, 20500, leaves out channel 25.

https://www.tvtv.us/md/gaithersburg/20899/luUSA-OTA20899

The series is compelling.

[Grins]

18. Is the Pope a Catholic?

Set your DVR if you have one.

[ificandream]

10. I just bought it on Apple for $16.95

(It's $39.95 on Fandango).

[JustAnotherGen]

19. My husband insists

As a new American (2020) - it's dangerous information.

We've had the 'will' to destroy the status quo before.

[wcmagumba]

32. All the episodes are available for free on the PBS website, at least in my area (Kansas)...

[Thunderbeast]

36. It is all on PBS Passport.

[CousinIT]

38. I love PBS Passport. Highly recommend.

Their programming is excellent.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I thought the revolution would not be televised.

Hey, it's the DU lounge.

[Walleye]

26. The current revolution will not be televised, it will be live streamed

[marble falls]

29. Gil Scott Herron agrees ...

?si=C5ShyY4QTr9fh9Fh

[Walleye]

30. Thank you, I used to listen to that on the jazz station years ago when I was working in the dark room

Great performance it has a great beat to it

[marble falls]

31. Great performer, writer and musician. Terrible, tragic heroin adiction. I love his work.

[livetohike]

3. Yes! I've learned so much already. I especially like thr

excerpts from letters and diaries. I’m from PA, but live in SC now. I’m reading lots of books on SC and the Revolutionary War. .

[Paladin]

4. Yet another excellent, timely Ken Burns production.

I'm really enjoying it.

[Fla Dem]

6. Where to watch The American Revolution..................

You can view The American Revolution by Ken Burns by streaming it on PBS.org or the free PBS App. The full series is also available to stream on the PBS Documentaries Prime Video Channel and on PBS Passport. It also airs on PBS through traditional broadcast, and streaming on services that carry live TV channels like DirecTV and Hulu + Live TV may be available.

[KPN]

11. Thank you! You saved me and probably some others from asking. Yeah, we can all "google" it, but it's always nice to

get a link or "directions to it"!

[homegirl]

12. Revealing,

fascinating, educational and so, so well done. A few weeks ago there was a mini series on Benjamin Franklin, watched all episodes, as I will with the American Revolution. Both should be required viewing in every Middle School in the country.

[evilhime]

13. Revolution preview

The first ten minutes of the series is available here:

&t=546s

[Mr.Bee]

14. It is Unsurpassed

Even though a bit of a departure from his regular 'filmed' versions,
I find it particularly engaging, like a book you cannot put down!
On the edge of my seat the entire episodes!
(but you know me, PBS man).

[Pas-de-Calais]

15. Have recorded can't wait

[Pacifist Patriot]

16. Saw the first one last night.

I'm a history buff and learned a few things!

[JoseBalow]

17. I am recording all episodes and will binge watch them later

I prefer doing that with his documentaries, instead of watching one by one and waiting for the next episode.

[Emile]

37. That's what I'm doing too. I plan to watch it after

Thanksgiving as I walk on the treadmill.

[True Dough]

48. I hope you walk the equivalent

of Valley Forge to Bunker Hill!

[JustAnotherGen]

20. Yesterday evening

When they mentioned Hunterdon County - I knew but it kind of hit home. We still have families here whose ancestors fought in it/lived through the intolerable acts.

Something I knew as a student of History - was just how much weather played into the LUCK of the Rebels.

PS- they get extra points for referring to Harlem as a little village, showing the Flat Bush second of 'long Island' and explaining the retreat of the rebels to the Island of Manahattan. . . and the guts of the British to sale the Palisades - then people fleeing to Fort Lee.

If anyone is familiar with all of these areas . . . Tiny fort Lee!

[wishstar]

44. Yes, I have a 5th gr grandfather who was a Lt. in Hunterdon Co. militia in 1776

He lived in Amwell/Ringoes area in midst of the atrocities and near the ambush killing of British officer Geary.

The 3rd show also hit home for me since I have another 5th gr grandfather who was enlisted in a Mass. Colonial regiment that was in Boston through March 1776, then part of the northern army at Ticonderoga in April 1776 and then West Point before joining with the regular Colonial army in November moving south for the crossing of the Delaware where his regiment joined Gen. Sullivan's west flank to Trenton.

Another 5th gr grandfather was a Quaker living in Rhode Island who never enlisted but mentioned in his diary that he saw George Washington ride by his home and I found documentation that this ancestor was paid for loaning out 2 enslaved men that he owned to the Colonial army. That ancestor's Quakers descendants became prominent NY abolitionists affiliated with Frederick Douglass.

[JustAnotherGen]

45. That's REALLY cool!

My mom's family were based in Virgina - and found fathers of 'west va' - anti-slavery. I have relatives that found in the French/Indian War, Rev, War of 1812, CW etc. etc.

I got married at the Stockton Inn.

[MuirHero]

21. Watching on local PBS station.

It is excellent as is everything that Ken Burns produces. A great history lesson that should be shown in every American HS history class, assuming that American history is even taught anymore.

[ihaveaquestion]

22. I'll probably binge watch it all next week.

[Grins]

23. Best was its links to Trump!!

Not directly! But it’s there.

In episode 1 it mentions London ordering General Gage to “restore order” in Boston. Gage orders grenadiers and infantry stationed in Nova Scotia to Boston. That creates pure hell in Boston. A standing army, ready to fight the king’s subjects, in their home.

I saw that and thought - That’s DC! And Chicago! And Portland! Trump, acting like a king and using the military exactly in the same manner of King George III!

[Native]

24. Planning to....heard an interview with Burns about it and immediately put it on my must watch list.

[Duppers]

25. Ken Burns' documentaries

Have never disappointed me.


(A good friend of mine was his sound editor for years - most notable, Ira did the sound for the Civil War Series.)

[Walleye]

27. I'm watching it on PBS, such a good picture of what was actually happening then

I was wondering how he would do it without photographs. I consider the beginning of the modern age to be in the 1840s when we started using photography. But he’s done a great job with the paintings and illustrations.

[marble falls]

28. I'm saving and going to binge watch it. It's got to be good.

[Imalittleteapot]

33. Yes. Besides the historical info,

I’m loving the paintings and drawings.

[Frasier Balzov]

35. What we've learned deserves its own thread.

For example, I didn't know that George Washington was at Boston.

And that Sir William Howe's battlefield failures gave rise to vague suspicion and hope that he was a secret friend of the rebels.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

39. I saw this bit on the Late Show and was blown away

Really whetted my apetite!

[nuxvomica]

40. I toured the Saratoga Battlefield today

In preparation for tonight's episode. In October 2027 there will be a full re-enactment of the Battle of Saratoga, the turning point in the Revolutionary War. I've been traveling so I've only seen bits and pieces so far but I am home tonight for this one. I hope they rerun the series this weekend.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

41. Good for you!

We need to keep our knowledge and respect for what it took for our forebears to secure this nation for all of us.

[Mr.Bee]

47. And 30% of the nation

want to return to having a KING!

[boonecreek]

42. Oh yes!

Watching part 4 now.

[yellow dahlia]

43. Agreed! Ken Burns is his own genre.

[Mr.Bee]

46. Can You Even Imagine

Corporate Commercial Television trying to present something like Ken Burns??
Aside from the commercial break every seven to ten minutes,
they would probably present each episode weekly,
making it impossible to keep track of what is happening!
I've even taken to recording it to review the next day on parts that
weren't clear to me!