Watch The American Revolution on PBS for Free

If you haven’t yet seen The American Revolution on PBS, please make time to see it. It’s particularly relevant now, and the filmmakers take pains to relate our history to current events.

The 6-part, 12-hour series is currently streaming for free but only until December 13, 2025. Watch it now on the PBS app or on PBS.org.

“It is perhaps Ken Burns’s best-timed [documentary], and not only because the country’s 250th anniversary is coming next year but also because Americans are again passionately and even violently divided, over matters including history itself.”

Use this gift link to read the rest of James Poniewozik’s critical piece in the New York Times.