Ken Burns' "American Revolution" was a fight against the brutal English Empire, and a fight to create another brutal empire, the American one.

SULLIVAN’S ISLAND — Running low on gunpowder, Col. William Moultrie’s men timed their cannon fire carefully on June 28, 1776. From behind the walls of a makeshift fortress made of palmetto logs and ...

Any discussion of films and TV series about the American revolution has to start with a caveat. There have been historical movies for as long as there have been movies, but films and TV series about ...