Free Preview Film Screening

Name: Free Preview Film Screening
Start: 2025-10-21T19:00:00-05:00
Location: WSRE Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio

Schedule

Tue, 21 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

WSRE Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio | Pensacola, FL

“The American Revolution” is coming to PBS this fall, and WSRE invites you to a free preview screening in the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio at Pensacola State College. Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Kathleen DuVal, who appears in the new documentary film series from Ken Burns, will speak following the film. There will also be a special presentation of the colors by the Pensacola Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution.
DuVal contributed to the production and in the film speaks about Spanish military leader Bernardo de Gálvez and how events that took place along the Gulf Coast, including the Siege of Pensacola, affected the outcome of the American Revolutionary War.
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” on PBS, Penguin Random House is reissuing the book this fall.
Admission is free. Register online at wsre.org/events or at eventbrite.com.
If you were among the first 100 to register for the Oct. 21 preview screening, you will receive an email about picking up your copy of "Independence Lost" at the event.
Corporate funding for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by The Better Angels Society and its members Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine with the Crimson Lion Foundation; and the Blavatnik Family Foundation. Major funding was also provided by David M. Rubenstein; The Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Family Foundation; Lilly Endowment Inc.; and the following Better Angels Society members: Eric and Wendy Schmidt; Stephen A. Schwarzman; and Kenneth C. Griffin with Griffin Catalyst. Additional support for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was provided by: The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations; The Pew Charitable Trusts; Gilbert S. Omenn and Martha A. Darling; Park Foundation; and the following Better Angels Society members: Gilchrist and Amy Berg; Perry and Donna Golkin; The Michelson Foundation; Jacqueline B. Mars; Kissick Family Foundation; Diane and Hal Brierley; John H. N. Fisher and Jennifer Caldwell; John and Catherine Debs; The Fullerton Family Charitable Fund; Philip I. Kent; Gail Elden; Deborah and Jon Dawson; David and Susan Kreisman; The McCloskey Family Charitable Trust; Becky and Jim Morgan; Carol and Ned Spieker; Mark A. Tracy; and Paul and Shelley Whyte. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was made possible, in part, with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.