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DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY:
3/26/24
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STATUS:
currently in development (2024-2025 season) |
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to series |
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
six-part, twelve-hour series |
DESCRIPTION:
(from PBS's press release, March 2024) Today, PBS President and CEO Paula Kerger announced PBS: America @ 250 at "A Common Cause to All" convening at Colonial Williamsburg organized by VA 250 and attended by local and state organizations planning events timed to the 250th anniversary of the country's founding in 2026. Kerger was joined at the announcement by Sarah Botstein, a co-director with Ken Burns and David Schmidt of the much-anticipated film, "The American Revolution," which is scheduled to air on PBS in the fall of 2025. The six-part, twelve-hour series, which was written by Burns's long-time collaborator Geoffrey Ward, is about the people who lived through America's founding struggle, their experiences over eight difficult years of wartime, and how they set out to imagine a new country. The series will interweave top-down accounts of American leaders and their loyalist and British counterparts with a range of perspectives from lesser-known soldiers and civilians - enslaved, free, and Native - who waged and witnessed the war. "The American Revolution" will be an expansive, unvarnished look at the virtues and contradictions of the fight for independence and the birth of the United States and how pivotal and groundbreaking this experiment in democracy was at the time and, by extension, throughout our history. |
CREW INFORMATION:
· David Schmidt as DIR
· Geoffrey Ward as WRTR
· Ken Burns as DIR
· Sarah Botstein as DIR
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GENRE(S):
· reality
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· no information is available
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