• “The American Revolution” (Streaming via PBS): Ken Burns, if not a founding father of documentary filmmaking, is at least one of its national heroes. Here he and co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt tell the story of America’s turbulent birth and the bloody conflict that followed. Our critic said “There is much an average American doesn’t remember or wasn’t ever taught about the Revolution, and the Burns-Botstein-Schmidt review is certainly enlightening.”