Editing Liberty! (section)

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{{Infobox television
| image          = 
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| director       = [[Ellen Hovde]]<br />[[Muffie Meyer]]
| producer       = Ellen Hovde<br />Muffie Meyer
| writer         = Ronald Blumer
| starring       = 
| music          = [[Mark O'Connor]]
| cinematography = James Brown<br />Robert Elfstrom<br />[[Boyd Estus]]<br />Tom Hurwitz<br />Joel Shapiro<br />Joe Vitagliano
| editor         = Eric Davies<br />Donna Marino<br />Sharon Sachs
| company        = Middlemarch Films 
| network        = [[PBS]]
| first_aired    = {{Start date|1997|11|23}}
| last_aired     = {{End date|1997|11|25}}
| runtime        = 360 minutes
| country        = 
| language       = English
| budget         = 
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'''''Liberty! The American Revolution''''' is a six-hour [[Documentary film|documentary]] [[miniseries]] about the [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]], and the instigating factors, that brought about the [[United States]]' independence from the [[Kingdom of Great Britain]]. It was first broadcast on the [[Public Broadcasting Service]] in 1997.

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 [[actor]]s in appropriate period costume reading as figures of the time, including [[Campbell Scott]] ([[Thomas Jefferson]]), [[Philip Bosco]] ([[Benjamin Franklin]]), [[Victor Garber]] ([[John Dickinson]]), [[Alex Jennings]] ([[King George III]]), [[Roger Rees]] ([[Thomas Paine]]), [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]] ([[Joseph Plumb Martin]]), [[Terrence Mann]] ([[John Burgoyne|Gen. John Burgoyne]]), [[Colm Feore]] ([[Alexander Hamilton]]), [[Sebastian Roché]] (The [[Marquis de Lafayette]]), [[Donna Murphy]] ([[Abigail Adams]]), [[Austin Pendleton]] ([[Benjamin Rush]]) and [[Peter Donaldson (actor)|Peter Donaldson]] ([[John Adams]]). [[Stephen Lang (actor)|Stephen Lang]] read the words of [[George Washington]], but is not seen on camera.

British and American historians and authors, including [[Carol Berkin]], [[Bernard Bailyn]], [[Ron Hoffman]], [[Claude-Anne Lopez]], [[Pauline Maier]], [[George C. Neumann]],  [[Richard Norton Smith]], [[Gordon S. Wood]] (U.S.) and [[Jeremy Black (historian)|Jeremy Black]], [[Colin Bonwick]], [[John Keegan]], and [[Nicholas Rodger|N.A.M. Rodger]] (U.K.) add historical background, explaining life and society of the time while interpreting events from the perspectives of the two sides of the conflict. Historical perspectives also include the status of black slaves and freemen, the participation of American Indians, and the strivings of American women as events progress.