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A new six-part documentary series from Ken Burns titled "The American Revolution" is set to premiere on Nov. 16.

The film explores the eight-year war, which Burns considers the most consequential revolution in history.

Filmmakers spent nearly 10 years on the project, aiming to tell a complex story that includes women, the enslaved, and Indigenous people.

The filmmaker did this interview ahead of the 250th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the war's first conflict.

The American Revolutionary War lasted more than eight years, with the first battle occurring hundreds of miles away from where the Declaration of Independence would be signed 15 months later.

There were 49 colonists killed in the Battles of Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 , d

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