Liberty! (1997)
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Cast & Crew.
Victor Garber
John Dickinson
Donna Murphy
Abigail Adams
Alex Jennings
King George III
Anthony Heald
Philip Vickers Fithian
Colm Feore
Alexander Hamilton
Peter Donaldson
John Adams
Stephen Lang
George Washington
Jefferson Mays
James Madison
Edward Herrmann
Narrator
Philip Seymour Hoffman
Joseph Plumb Martin
Jane Adams
Sara Scott
Jake Weber
Virginia Officer
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Luke - Slave
Terrence Mann
General John Burgoyne
Mel Johnson Jr.
Jehu Grant
Paxton Whitehead
Horace Walpole
Remak Ramsay
Thomas Hutchinson
Forrest Sawyer
Self - Host
Campbell Scott
Thomas Jefferson
Roger Rees
Thomas Paine
James Naughton
Patrick Henry
Philip Bosco
Benjamin Franklin
Joris Stuyck
Johann Ewald
Jamison Selby
Southern Patriot
Steve Zahn
American Sergeant
Francie Swift
Baroness von Riedesel
Simon Jones
Ambrose Serle
Daniel Gerroll
General Charles Cornwallis
Roberta Maxwell
Mercy Otis Warren
Byron Jennings
John Hancock
JD Cullum
Nicholas Cresswell
Neil Maffin
Anti-Federalist
Stephen Temperley
Hector de Crevecoeur
Kali Rocha
Eliza Wilkinson
Mark Letheren
British Soldier
Douglas Weston
Sir George Collier
Austin Pendleton
Benjamin Rush
John Ellison Conlee
Col. Henry Knox
Andreas Beckett
Lieutenant Colonel Baum
David Bishins
Melancton Smith
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Release DateNovember 23, 1997
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes6
Running Time1h
Content RatingTV-G
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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 on the Public Broadcasting Service 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 (Thomas Jefferson), Philip Bosco (Benjamin Franklin), Victor Garber (John Dickinson), Alex Jennings (King George III), Roger Rees (Thomas Paine), Philip Seymour Hoffman (Joseph Plumb Martin), Terrence Mann (Gen. John Burgoyne), Colm Feore (Alexander Hamilton), Sebastian Roché (The Marquis de Lafayette), Donna Murphy (Abigail Adams), Austin Pendleton (Benjamin Rush) and Peter Donaldson (John Adams). Stephen Lang read the words of George Washington, but is not seen on camera.
British and American historians and authors, including Carol Berkin, Bernard Bailyn, Ron Hoffman, Claude-Anne Lopez, Pauline Maier, George C. Neumann, Richard Norton Smith, Gordon S. Wood (U.S.) and Jeremy Black, Colin Bonwick, John Keegan, and N.A.M. Rodger (U.K.) add historical background, explaining life and society of the time while interpreting events from the perspectives of the two sides of the conflict. Historical perspectives also include the status of black slaves and freemen, the participation of American Indians, and the strivings of American women as events progress.