Filmmaker Ken Burns on 'the Most Important Revolution in History'
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🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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| 0:34.5 | Hello, everyone, and welcome to Ad Barons. I I'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest, |
| 0:38.3 | filmmaker Ken Burns, Kansas, great to see you. Thank you so much for joining us. |
| 0:43.3 | Great to be with you, Andy, great to see you. |
| 0:46.3 | So of course Ken really needs no introduction, made the Civil War, made baseball, all these incredible documentaries. |
| 0:52.3 | And his latest one, The American Revolution is out now. |
| 0:55.7 | It's fantastic. I highly recommend it. And you've gotten great reaction, I would imagine, Ken. |
| 1:02.8 | Yeah, so we had a national broadcast, you know, that old-fashioned thing in the middle of November |
| 1:08.5 | and collected about 20 million people, which is pretty great. |
| 1:12.8 | But almost immediately it was reported that for the first time in history, PBS had entered the top 10 of streaming programs. |
| 1:20.0 | We stayed at number 10. I don't want to gild the lily too much. |
| 1:23.3 | And a metric that I hadn't heard of before, 565 million minutes of streaming. |
| 1:29.2 | Well, that's now, without another second broadcast, over 4 billion minutes. |
| 1:36.4 | So I think that in this sort of fraught time, going back to the origin story |
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