Revolutionary America

Revolutionary America (2026) is a documentary you can watch online on iFILM about how thirteen self-governing colonies ended up at war with the empire that founded them.

For roughly a century and a half, the colonies had mostly run their own affairs. After the war with France and its Native allies, London decided that arrangement was over and colonists had no real claim to self-rule — a position that clashed with everything they'd built their lives around. What follows isn't framed as a tidy history-class timeline: the film treats the break as a genuine gamble, one where ordinary colonists put their property, their standing and sometimes their lives on the table against a professional army with every material advantage.

Historians and commentators — Larry P. Arnn, Eric Metaxas, Wilfred McClay, Michael Knowles, John Grant and John Lovell — carry the analysis, with Tom Selleck narrating. Director Ian Anthony Reid runs it at 113 minutes, closer to an argument than a lecture. If you want the founding period explained by people who've spent careers on it rather than a textbook summary, Revolutionary America is on iFILM now.