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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 in 1997 and Re-release on June 21, 2004 to July 26, 2004.
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), Alex Jennings ( King George III), Roger Rees ( Thomas Paine), Philip Seymour Hoffman ( Joseph Plum 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, including Carol Berkin, Bernard Bailyn, Claude-Anne Lopez, Pauline Maier, Gordon S. Wood (U.S.) and Jeremy Black, Colin Bonwick, N.A.M. Rodger (U.K.) add historical background, interpreting events from the perspectives of the two sides of the conflict.
Liberty! is an album by Mark O'Connor, which comprises his soundtrack to the six part PBS series Liberty!. The album is composed mostly of period songs arranged by O'Connor, with the exception of "Freedom" and the theme for the series, written by O'Connor, entitled "Song of the Liberty Bell".