People are panning the new six-part woke ‘documentary’ series on the American Revolution by Ken Burns. According to posters who have seen it, Burns liked the Revolution and George Washington, but also managed to send a lot of bad messages. Burns can’t let history interfere with his pandering to PBS and his elite comrades.
It premiered on PBS on November 16th.
What you have to get out of the first three minutes is that Ben Franklin copied the Iroquois form of democracy. And you probably thought the Magna Carta had something to do with the formation of our democracy (Republic).
People say you definitely don’t feel good about white people, or our Revolution while watching it. I haven’t seen it, but liberals loved it.
This sounds like the Iroquois Confederacy although Burns denies it:
Less than 3 minutes into the Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution, and we get:
1. White people are bad.
2. Native Americans had a centuries-old democracy before British colonists arrived.
3. Benjamin Franklin copied the Native American blueprint. pic.twitter.com/fyx0CHYyQy
— Adam Johnston (@adamkjohnston) November 19, 2025
White men aren’t so great, guys. Ken Burns favors propaganda.
Episode 2 sounds nice.
Episode 2: blacks & Native American determined the outcome of every single pivotal battle
George Washington was an evil man because he asked a free 8 year black child to do chores
— AnnAndie (@anderso24344556) November 20, 2025
George had a lot of good qualities. Good to know.
Today we will be at George Washington’s @MountVernon discussing the most important person in our film, The American Revolution, and what we can learn from his leadership.
Here’s a short clip about Washington the man. We don’t have a country without him.
Hope you can watch the… pic.twitter.com/VgaaGP4izE
— Ken Burns (@KenBurns) October 29, 2025
Episode 4 made this living history teacher angry:
The fourth episode of Burns’ American Revolution managed to make even me angry.
Native tribes are treated with unusual reverence, with no mention of their practice of slaughtering families or warring with each other using the same rights of conquest imposed on them later. For someone who lost several family members to tribal raiding during the period, including my 71-year-old 5th GGFather Heinrich Hauser who was shot down, stripped and scalped while out walking near his farm, Mohawk historian Darren Bonaparte mocking the savage murder of Jane McCrea during the Burgoine campaign as mere American propaganda is both inaccurate and excessive, damaging Burns’ entire effort. Hauser was from Canton Zurich and had established a farm in Plainfield Township in 1739. All three of his sons served in the Northampton County militia.
Our Founding Fathers totally ripped off the Iroquois who put Athens to shame as one X posted noted. It’s apparently common knowledge:
The League of the Iroquois being a framework for the Constitution is pretty basic middle/high school history textbook stuff my guy sorry you didn’t pay attention! https://t.co/8cCEs1h0Ng
— Julia Claire (@ohJuliatweets) November 19, 2025
The only problem with the theory is the Iroquois document wasn’t translated into English until the 1800s so there is no way the Founding Fathers ever saw it. The truth is the Iroquois didn’t have a democracy.
More Columbus Day BS as if you haven’t heard enough:
Everyone must learn to master this scene, it’s really easy to talk around the colonizer BS. https://t.co/eIN67bZLiv
— I Draw Reetards (@IDrawReetards) November 19, 2025
Burns likes to focus on anti-white propaganda and loves to talk about how all of our founding fathers were racists.
Lyn here was ticked off.
Ken Burns doesn’t seem to have any clue that it was white people that fought the American revolution, not the savages and not the blacks. What a fucking fool. @PBS @KenBurns
— Lynn (@ChiefRoyalsHawk) November 17, 2025
This doctor said it sucks.
Watched the first episode of Ken Burns, The American Revolution. & in those initial moments, he quotes “Indians” . Burns sucks endlessly at the tit of PBS. No one should watch this. This is sad. He hates us.
— Thomas Gentilcore, M.D. (@tgentilcoremd) November 17, 2025
It was nice of Ken Burns to squeeze in a few minutes of the American Revolution into his racial grievance documentary.
— Dan Curry (@dancurry) November 20, 2025
He’s not calling them patriots.
I am watching Ken Burns documentary The American Revolution.
Is it just me? It bothers me that he calls the Americans rebels.
The winners write history.
We won.
For 250 years they were called Patriots.
Why is he calling them rebels?— MizDonna (@MizDonna69) November 19, 2025
Fisher King said some people are over-the-top criticizing it. Perhaps.
The Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution shows bias, and I posted on it too.
But the hysterical outrage on here is just overstated. It basically tells the story in a way that will educate people far better than they get in school.
Personally I find the stuff on Indians or blacks or George Washington’s approach to slavery interesting – because I already know about Lexington, Trenton, Saratoga and Yorktown.
Could be that I’m so used to leftwing bias in history writing and broadcasts that I find this a relief because it just isn’t as bad. I think that’s probably why I’m pretty calm about this documentary. But some of the posts on here are really over the top and performative for clicks. I don’t see slander here.
The Ken Burns documentary on the American Revolution shows bias, and I posted on it too.
But the hysterical outrage on here is just overstated. It basically tells the story in a way that will educate people far better than they get in school.
Personally I find the stuff on…
— FischerKing (@FischerKing64) November 22, 2025
Ken Burns is really good at documentaries on African-American topics. He should just do those and stop taking on predominantly white topics like the American Revolution, National Parks, and Country Music and shoehorning minor blacks into them.
— Steve Sailer (@Steve_Sailer) November 21, 2025
Watch Burns talk about the “dangerous” anti-immigration, racist Republican Party. If you are Maga, this is who you are in the elite Burns woke world.
“Who would have thought out of this multitude of rebel would come a people who could DEFY KINGS”
– AMERICAN REVOLUTION by BurnsThat was the CLIP CHOSEN TO SHOW?? IF YOU DONT NOTICE WHAT KEN BURNS & COLBERT ARE TRYING TO DO HERE…YOU ARENT PAYING ATTENTION.
Burns is… pic.twitter.com/USzx1nNWLa— Johnny St.Pete (@JohnMcCloy) November 12, 2025
If it’s PBS it is bad.
There was a decent series on the Revolutionary War. Ignore this new one.
There has long been a woke belief that the war should not have happened.
The one obvious thing in that Burns MSNBC video is that Burns does not know a single republican. What a jackass.
The League of the Iroquois being a framework for the Constitution is pretty basic middle/high school history textbook stuff my guy sorry you didn’t pay attention! Pure nonsense. When we older folks were in school we didn’t have to pay attention to this complete crap because it was never taught. This stupidity only began to be taught when the bolsheviks… Read more »
A long time ago his documentaries were better, not neutral but it was much less obvious he was a (woke) leftist. I don t remember when, maybe 25 or 30 years ago his documentary on the civil war very interesting. back in the 90s and early 2000s I have watched many of his documentaries Sadly he is now what I… Read more »
In an interview about his Holocaust documentary 3 years ago he compared MAGAs to NAZIs
He is now officially an I D I O T !!!!!
The woke interpret in the likeness of THEIR understanding….Sorry, every generation from the evolution or creation, attempted to make this a better world, based on the prevailing assessment of ‘better’. They got somethings right, they got somethings wrong. But their attempts WERE guided by the ‘prevailing’ situation at the time of ‘enactment’. Right now there are those that believe the… Read more »
The only good thing about Ken Burns is that he got rid of that stupid looking haircut.
Yeah, complete garbage. It’s the video version of The 1619 Project.
I recently watched Burns’ documentary on the Roosevelt family, which was overly worshipful for FDR and Eleanor, while pretty even-handed for Teddy R. Outside of Burns’ obvious bias, it was very well researched and produced, especially the narration. I only wish there were more historical documentaries on television, like there used to be. I also miss watching the best of… Read more »