| Sumario: | The article reviews *The American Revolution*, a 2025 documentary series directed by Ken Burns, Sara Botstein, and David Schmidt, which explores the founding of the United States during its 250th anniversary. The series employs a multivocal approach featuring historians, narrators, and celebrity voice actors to highlight the era’s social complexities, including Indigenous and enslaved peoples’ roles, though it sometimes reverts to nationalist narratives that obscure regional and class differences. While the documentary improves upon earlier works by incorporating recent scholarship and diverse perspectives, it focuses primarily on the Revolutionary War over broader political and cultural revolutions, with limited coverage of events like the French and Indian War and gradual emancipation. The film concludes by linking the Revolution’s promises to ongoing social progress but tends to downplay the era’s legacies of land conquest and enslavement.
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