"The American Revolution" Preview Screening

“The American Revolution” is coming to PBS this fall, and local public television station WSRE is presenting a free preview screening event at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 21, in the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio at Pensacola State College.

The Pensacola Chapter of the Florida Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) will present colors. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Kathleen DuVal will speak following the film.

“The American Revolution” explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence. The much-anticipated documentary series was directed and produced by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and written by Burns’ long-time collaborator Geoffrey C. Ward. The filmmakers and PBS scheduled the broadcast for 2025, the 250th anniversary of the start of the war, which began in the spring of 1775.

In her book “Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution,” DuVal tells the forgotten story of the American Revolution on the Gulf Coast.

Winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book of the Year Award and finalist for the George Washington Book Prize, “Independence Lost” was first released in 2015. In commemoration of America’s 250th anniversary and DuVal’s appearance in “The American Revolution,” Penguin Random House is reissuing the book this fall.

The first 100 to register for the preview screening will receive a copy of the new edition at the event. Admission is free.

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