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Independence Dawn – The Forgotten Revolution

2 × 45' (ENG), 90' (GER)

• 250th Anniversary of the Declaration of Independence
  04.07.2026

Discover the untold stories of everyday revolutionaries—men and women, Black and White, free and enslaved—who risked everything for a new vision of freedom.

This documentary takes a new, unvarnished look at the birth of the United States of America. It combines the classic chronology of an epochal upheaval with the biographies of those who have long had no voice in the politics of remembrance: women, Black soldiers, spies, ordinary men and young people who fought for a freedom from which they were often excluded. At its heart is William French, a humble Massachusetts farmer turned soldier, whose two-year odyssey from Concord to Trenton offers a powerful lens into the human tragedies of war. As towering ideals collide with harsh realities, and loyalties are tested on the battlefield and at home, this documentary asks: whose liberty was truly won?