Adam Arkin
James Parker
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Episodes 1–3 · 42 credited relationships
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Corbin Bleu
John Joseph Henry
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Kenneth Branagh
Thomas Gage
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A long-serving British officer appointed military governor of Massachusetts to restore imperial authority during the Coercive Acts crisis.
Kenneth Branagh
Joseph Reed
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A lawyer, officer, and close correspondent of Washington whose private doubts and public service reveal the strain inside Patriot leadership.
Kenneth Branagh
Samuel Johnson
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Josh Brolin
George Washington
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A Virginia officer whose failed Ohio expedition helped widen the imperial war and whose continental reputation later made him Congress’s choice to command its new army.
Josh Charles
John Peters
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Josh Charles
Joseph Warren
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A Boston physician and organizer who drafted the Suffolk Resolves, directed intelligence, and sent riders on the night of April 18.
Hugh Dancy
Hugh Percy
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Claire Danes
Abigail Adams
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A Massachusetts correspondent and household manager whose letters tracked siege, disease, politics, and the gendered limits of revolutionary change.
Jeff Daniels
Thomas Jefferson
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A Virginia delegate and enslaver who drafted the Declaration of Independence’s principal text and later held the nation’s highest offices.
Marcus Davis-Orrom
John Barker
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Alden Ehrenreich
Joseph Plumb Martin
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A Connecticut soldier who served through much of the war and published a retrospective narrative in 1830.
Craig Ferguson
Lord Dunmore
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Virginia’s last royal governor, who retreated to naval protection and offered freedom to enslaved people belonging to rebels who joined British forces.
Paul Giamatti
John Adams
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A Massachusetts lawyer who defended soldiers after the Boston Massacre, wrote against Parliament's constitutional claims, and became a leading continental delegate.
Domhnall Gleeson
John Macpherson
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Amanda Gorman
Phillis Wheatley
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A West African-born poet brought enslaved to Boston as a child, internationally published in 1773, emancipated soon afterward, and an incisive participant in Atlantic debates over Christianity, liberty, and slavery.
Charlotte Hacke
Hannah Davis
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Charlotte Hacke
Martha Reed
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A transatlantic correspondent and later organizer of women's wartime fundraising whose letters with Joseph Reed preserve the household dimensions of revolution.
Tom Hanks
Andrew Eliot
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Ethan Hawke
John Andrews
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Maya Hawke
Betsy Ambler
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A Virginia woman whose later recollections preserve how war and politics were remembered within an elite family.
Samuel L. Jackson
Caesar Sarter
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Michael Keaton
Benedict Arnold
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A Connecticut officer whose bold leadership at Ticonderoga and Quebec preceded major American victories, bitter disputes over rank and credit, and his later defection to Britain.
Joe Keery
John Greenwood
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A Massachusetts teenager who served as a fifer and later described the New Jersey campaign in a memoir written decades afterward.
Joel Kinnaman
Thomas Hutchinson
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A Massachusetts-born imperial official whose home was destroyed during Stamp Act resistance and whose effort to preserve royal government made him a central Patriot antagonist.
Joel Kinnaman
Samuel Seabury
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Damian Lewis
King George III
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The monarch under whom Britain won a global war, attempted to reorganize its empire, and eventually confronted colonial rebellion.
Laura Linney
Ann Hulton
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Carolyn McCormick
Hannah Griffitts
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Carolyn McCormick
Hannah Winthrop
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Lindsay Mendez
Catharine Macaulay
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Edward Norton
Philip Vickers Fithian
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A New Jersey diarist and minister whose writings document civilian society and military service before his death in the New York campaign.
Mandy Patinkin
Benjamin Franklin
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A printer and imperial reformer who promoted colonial union, defended the colonies before Parliament, and gradually lost faith in reconciliation.
Jon Proudstar
Canassatego
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An Onondaga diplomat prominent in the Lancaster treaty proceedings, where land, alliance, jurisdiction, and colonial union were negotiated through interpreters and scribes.
Matthew Rhys
Thomas Paine
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An English immigrant who reached Philadelphia in late 1774 and soon converted the imperial crisis into an accessible public argument against monarchy and for independence.
Liev Schreiber
Nathanael Greene
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A Rhode Island officer who rose rapidly under Washington, made consequential mistakes around New York, and became one of the Revolution's most important commanders.
Liev Schreiber
Samuel Adams
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A persistent organizer of Boston resistance who connected town politics, print, committees, and continental action.
Chaske Spencer
Tsi’yu-gunsini (Dragging Canoe)
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A Cherokee leader who rejected land cessions and organized sustained resistance during and after the Revolution.
Dan Stevens
William Howe
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The British commander who captured New York and repeatedly defeated Washington in 1776 while failing to turn battlefield dominance into the rebellion's political collapse.
Meryl Streep
Mercy Otis Warren
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A Massachusetts writer whose plays, poems, correspondence, and later history interpreted imperial corruption and revolutionary politics.
Yul Vazquez
Henry Knox
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A Boston bookseller and self-taught artilleryman who transported cannon from Ticonderoga to the Boston siege and became the army’s chief artillerist.