Ken Burns and David Schmidt discuss their PBS documentary series 'The American Revolution'
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Payton Turkeltaub
Crackles when you bite it. Shows the baker did the work.
Summary
Ken Burns and David Schmidt discuss their six-part PBS documentary series "The American Revolution," released in November 2025, less than a year before the U.S.'s 250th anniversary. Burns describes it as a 10-year labor that challenged preconceptions about the American Revolution. The article features an interview with Variety's Jazz Tangcay where the filmmakers discuss the production process and their approach to the historical subject matter.
Key quotes
· 2 pulledThat wasn't even on anyone's horizon.
I didn't realize then that it would be a 10-year labor, that we would explode all of the preconceptions that we have and that we would come out as we did.
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