 Fun to Watch
This is a great series. What I especially love about it is that it has lots of historical re-enactments as opposed to scanning over a picture and then having a professor speak and speak and speak (like PBS's "Liberty"...which I found rather boring). Yes, there are a few comments that are less-than-intelligent (like the prozac and everyone being drunk comments), but overall the material provided is quite interesting and the action is engaging for both adults and for children. This first came out when I was an 8th grade American History teacher for at-risk inner-city students. I showed this video to them in parts and they really enjoyed them and learned quite a bit. I now teach upper elementary in a rural area. I have used this with my students as well and we all enjoyed it and learned from it.
 Founding lies
This propaganda piece from American companies makes the Russian's work look good. Histrionics, lies, and all around elevation of men who were inherently less than idealistic than what most schools teach about. Your best bet is to look at this as nothing more than cheap agitprop or some type of hilarious cover up of wealthy white agrarian men with outdated values. Most of the "great Founding Fathers" owned slaves, denied expression to women, believed in wage-slavery, didn't think Native people were human and didn't want to pay centralized taxes for England's protection. America (USA) has never been a "democracy", it has always been controlled by a small minority of powerful and wealthy elites, using indoctrination, a contorted educational system, a specialized intelligence police force, and propaganda, such as this, to shape the masses.These are the "men" to blame for the gigantic, bureaucratic war state that is America today. Go read Orwell or Howard Zinn again, unless of course you like to believe in lies.
 Another fine production by the History Channel
Like most of the works by the History Channel, this production is aimed at the general public. It addresses some of the common myths and misconceptions about the founding fathers and gives short profiles of each of them as they emerge into the conflict of the Revolution. It also allows the viewer to experience the Revolution through the eyes of the Founders by using their own words as read by famous actors giving us a sense of how they perceived the world around them.
A great teaching aid
Our History classes at the high school used this DVD when the new text books did not arrive on time. It was a great visual aid and I would recommend it to all.
Great for American History buffs
This is a good dvd for someone who wants to know more about the circumstances that our founding father's were in back in 1776 or there about. I recommend this dvd.
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