Mel Gibson er Benjamin Martin, som ændrer sig fra at være omsorgsfuld familiefar til at være en fuldblods soldat i den amerikanske frihedskrig i 1770'erne. Han bliver leder af en guerillaagtig milits, der med stor kløgt og brutalitet gør livet surt for den engelske hær.
Arkæologen Benjamin Franklin Gates finder ud af, at der bag den amerikanske uafhængighedserklæring gemmer sig et skattekort over tempelriddernes sagnomspudne skat. Desværre er han kommet til at røbe dette til skattejægeren Ian Howe, og nu er både skat og Uafhængighedserklæringen i fare.
Året er 1776. Amerika er i oprør mod sin forhadte engelske kolonimagt. Faktisk vil Tom Dobb bare passe sig selv og sin søn Ned, mens den amerikanske revolution langsomt tager form. Men da Ned bliver narret til at melde sig ind i hæren, melder Tom sig også for at finde og beskytte sit afkom, og snart spiller han en afgørende rolle i Amerikas blodige kamp for selvstændighed. Undervejs forelsker han sig i aristokraten Daisy, som har forladt sin klasse til fordel for rebellerne.
In December 1776, Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his electrical experiments. But his passion and power are put to the test when he embarks on a secret mission to France—with the fate of American independence hanging in the balance.
Idealistic Revolutionary War rebels harass the Redcoats in British-held Chester, Pennsylvania, near Philadelphia in this adventure series which drew parallels with 1960s political activism.
Everyone knows the story of Paul Revere and his famous midnight ride to warn colonial forces of the British approach. But history books don't tell of the man who sent Revere on his mission: Joseph Warren, America's least remembered founding father. Uncover the forgotten history of Warren and stories of other unsung heroes in our fight for independence.
The story of how a fatherless young soldier full of personal ambition becomes a leader of men willing to sacrifice all for the common cause. How a once-loyal British subject rises to battle an empire in a liberty-or-death campaign to forge a new nation. And then how, at the zenith of his power, the victorious general voluntarily steps down, becoming what King George III would call “the greatest man in the world.”
The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It impacted millions from Vermont’s Green Mountains to the swamps of South Carolina, from Indian Country to the Iberian Peninsula. In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American Revolution turned the world upside-down. Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic Coast united in rebellion, won their independence, and established a republic that still endures. The American Revolution, will present the story of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that they lived through.
