Product Tag - Twin Cities Public Television

Liberty! The American Revolution is a six-hour documentary miniseries about the Revolutionary War, and the instigating factors, that brought about the United States’ independence from the Kingdom of Great Britain. It was first broadcast in 1997.

The series consists of six hour-long episodes. Each episode is introduced by Forrest Sawyer and narrated by Edward Herrmann. Period photographs and location filming are intercut with stage and screen actors in appropriate period costume reading as figures of the time, including Campbell Scott, Philip Bosco, Alex Jennings, Roger Rees, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Terrence Mann, Colm Feore, Sebastian Roché, Donna Murphy, and Peter Donaldson. Stephen Lang read the words of George Washington, but is not seen on camera.