VPM, filmmaker Ken Burns to host special docuseries preview at Altria Theater
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RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- Virginia's home for Public Media (VPM) is collaborating with filmmaker Ken Burns for an event at the Altria Theater.
On Sunday, March 23 at 7 p.m., VPM will host American filmmaker Ken Burns at the Altria Theater for a special preview screening of his new docuseries "The American Revolution."
Tickets begin at $33 and can be purchased online.
Burns will be spending two days in Virginia, starting in Richmond at St. John's Church on Sunday, March 23 at 1:30 p.m., with a reenactment of Patrick Henry's "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death," which happens to fall on the 250th anniversary of the speech.
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Later on Sunday evening, the docuseries preview event will be followed by a panel discussion with Burns, his co-director Sarah Botstein and three historians who were featured in the film -- Rick Atkinson, Christopher Brown and Jane Kamensky.
On Monday, March 24, Burns will head to Williamsburg for a special outdoor screening of his docuseries and the A Common Cause to All event hosted by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation and VA250.
According to VPM, "The American Revolution" is a 12-hour, six-part documentary that explores how the nation was founded and its eight-year War for Independence.
The docuseries will premiere on Sunday, Nov. 16, for six nights in a row through Friday, Nov. 21 from 8 to 10 p.m. on PBS.
