Season 1
- 1The Shot Heard Around the World8 Jul 2003
- 2American Crisis: 177615 Jul 2003
- 3The War Moves South22 Jul 2003
- 4The World Turned Upside Down29 Jul 2003
Historian Richard Holmes brings us the extraordinary story of America's first civil war. We've been told that the War of Independence was the American people's struggle for liberty against an oppressive colonial power. However, many Americans were loyal to the British Crown throughout the war; men and women often chose sides not because they wanted freedom, but because they wanted their neighbour's land. Using vivid reconstruction, eye-witness accounts, original documents and paintings, and Ric…