S1E5
The Soul of All America (December 1777 – May 1780)
The American Revolution · 2025-11-20 · 114 min
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what happens
The French-American alliance changes the war and moves it to other theaters; navies battle off England and in the Caribbean, while armies advance in Indian Country and the South; the British take Charleston.
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S1E5 →who made it
- directed
- Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, David P. Schmidt
- written
- Geoffrey C. Ward
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Adam Arkin as James Parker / Ashbel Green / Andrew Hunter / Enoch Anderson / Timothy Dwight / Robert Morris (voice)
Josh Brolin as George Washington (voice)
Josh Charles as Joseph Warren / John Peters / David Ramsey (voice)
Hugh Dancy as Hugh Percy / John Burgoyne / Banastre Tarleton / Comte de Vergennes (voice)
Claire Danes as Abigail Adams (voice)
Alden Ehrenreich as Joseph Plumb Martin (voice)
Craig Ferguson as John Murray / John Jones / John Purrier / Martin Hunter / William Harcourt (voice)
Paul Giamatti as John Adams (voice)