• 2002
  • TV-Y7
  • 30m
Liberty's Kids

Summary The American Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of an American teenaged lad, a young English lady, and a French boy, all three of whom work as reporters for Benjamin Franklin. View more details

  • 2002
  • TV-Y7
  • 30m

Liberty's Kids

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Kathleen Barr Walter Cronkite Reo Jones Chris Lundquist

All cast & crew

7.9

Details

Genres : Adventure Animation Family History War

Release date : Sep 1, 2002

Countries of origin : United States Canada China Luxembourg Taiwan

Language : English

Filming locations : Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Mélusine Productions Buzzfeed Studios Hong Ying Universe Company

Summary The American Revolutionary War is seen through the eyes of an American teenaged lad, a young English lady, and a French boy, all three of whom work as reporters for Benjamin Franklin. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Animation Family History War

Release date : Sep 1, 2002

Countries of origin : United States Canada China Luxembourg Taiwan

Language : English

Filming locations : Los Angeles, California, USA

Production companies : Mélusine Productions Buzzfeed Studios Hong Ying Universe Company

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 01, 2002
The Boston Tea Party
When Moses, James and Henri come to Boston pick up Sarah, they find themselves involved in the famous tax protest.
Episode 2 • Sep 02, 2002
The Intolerable Acts
Needing to escape occupied Boston, the kids can't stay out of trouble during the British crackdown imposed after the Boston Tea Party.
Episode 3 • Sep 03, 2002
United We Stand
Sarah and Henri deliver a letter to Abigal Adams, while James learns some hard lessons about patriotic sounding mob brutality while covering the first Continental Congress.
Episode 4 • Sep 04, 2002
Liberty or Death
While on a business trip to Virginia, the gang find Moses' brother enslaved and Moses resolves to free him.
Episode 5 • Sep 05, 2002
Midnight Ride
Paul Revere and William Dawes spread the word that the "British are coming!" on the eve of "the shot heard 'round the world."
Episode 6 • Sep 08, 2002
The Shot Heard Round the World
The Revolutionary War begins with the battles of Lexington and Concord.
Episode 7 • Sep 09, 2002
Green Mountain Boys
Trouble erupts in the New Hampshire Grants when settlers are forced from their homes (1770-1775).
Episode 8 • Sep 10, 2002
The Second Continental Congress
The colonies decide they need a national army.
Episode 9 • Sep 11, 2002
Bunker Hill
The first major battle of the war.
Episode 10 • Sep 12, 2002
Postmaster General Franklin
Ben Franklin is named the first Postmaster General of the colonies (7/26/75).
Episode 11 • Sep 15, 2002
Washington Takes Command
George Washington arrives in Boston to take command of the army (7/3/75).
Episode 12 • Sep 16, 2002
Common Sense
The kids meet the hot headed idealist, Tom Paine, whose popular anti-monarchist pamphlet, "Common Sense," popularizes the idea of colonial independence.
Episode 13 • Sep 17, 2002
The First Fourth of July
James learns about the power of political rhetoric as the motion to declare independence comes to a vote in the Continental Congress.
Episode 14 • Sep 18, 2002
New York, New York
At the Battle of Long Island, Washington fights the British in open field battles -- with catastrophic results (8/27-29/76).
Episode 15 • Sep 19, 2002
The Turtle
The first attempt to sink a ship with a submarine fails (9/6/76).
Episode 16 • Sep 22, 2002
One Life to Lose
A failed peace conference between the British Admiral Howe and John Adams and Ben Franklin convinces the American leaders that the British have no interest in making peace (9/11/76).
Episode 17 • Sep 23, 2002
Captain Molly
Ben Franklin, appointed to a commission to negotiate a treaty with the French, sails for France aboard the Reprisal (10/24/76).
Episode 18 • Sep 24, 2002
American Crisis
The low point of the war for the Americans has arrived and General Washington calls upon Thomas Paine to put the times in perspective.
Episode 19 • Sep 25, 2002
Across the Delaware
To prevent ultimate defeat, Washington and his forces cross the Delaware River for a daring attack on Christmas Day.
Episode 20 • Sep 26, 2002
An American in Paris
Ben Franklin sets up residence in Paris and begins his uphill battle to enlist France in the American cause (12/28/76).
Episode 21 • Sep 29, 2002
Sybil Ludington
Sixteen-year-old Sybil Ludington makes her own "midnight ride" in Westchester County, New York (4/26/77).
Episode 22 • Sep 30, 2002
Lafayette Arrives
The 19-year-old Marquis de Lafayette arrives after an eventful journey from France and offers his services to Congress (7/27/77).
Episode 23 • Oct 01, 2002
The Hessians Are Coming
While General Horatio Gates battles Burgoyne at the Battle of Saratoga, James is captured by British and Hessian forces as a spy.
Episode 24 • Oct 02, 2002
Valley Forge
James, Sarah and Henri are there as George Washington and his Continental Army endure a horrible winter at Valley Forge while Baron von Steuben arrives to train Washington's men into a proper fighting force.
Episode 25 • Oct 03, 2002
Allies at Last
News of the American victory at Saratoga helps pave the way for Ben Franklin to negotiate a treaty with France.
Episode 26 • Nov 03, 2002
Honor and Compromise
The States struggle to unite politically before the arrival of the French Ambassador (5/9/78-7/8/78).
Episode 27 • Nov 04, 2002
The New Frontier
In the Ohio territory, Shawnee Chief Cornstalk and his people are caught between the Americans and the British, with tragic results (11/77).
Episode 28 • Nov 05, 2002
Not Yet Begun to Fight
In a long, desperate battle, John Paul Jones and his wildly outgunned Bonhomme Richard defeat the British Serapis off the coast of England (9/23/79).
Episode 29 • Nov 06, 2002
The Great Galvez
Spanish Governor Bernardo de Galvez aides the American cause by capturing Baton Rouge (9/21/79), Natchez (10/5/79) and Mobile (3/13/80) from the British.
Episode 30 • Nov 07, 2002
In Praise of Ben
Sarah returns to Philadelphia and is reunited with her friends just in time to help them explain to a boy the character and accomplishments of Benjamin Franklin.
Episode 31 • Nov 10, 2002
Bostonians
Sarah and Henri join the Adams family in Massachusetts just as John and his son John Quincy return from France and are reunited with Abigail (8/2/79).
Episode 32 • Jan 19, 2003
Benedict Arnold
James, Sarah and Henri are there when Arnold tries to hand West Point over to British (9/21/80).
Episode 33 • Jan 20, 2003
Conflict in the South
General Nathanael Greene replaces Horatio Gates as the American commander in the south (10/16/80).
Episode 34 • Jan 21, 2003
Deborah Samson: Soldier of the Revolution
Deborah Samson masquerades as a man so she can enlist in the Continental army (5/20/1782-10/23/83).
Episode 35 • Jan 22, 2003
James Armistead
Virginia slave James Armistead joins Lafayette and spies on Benedict Arnold (3/81).
Episode 36 • Jan 23, 2003
Yorktown
The climatic battle of the war.
Episode 37 • Mar 02, 2003
Born Free and Equal
Massachusetts slave "Mum Bett" sues for her freedom (5/28/1781).
Episode 38 • Mar 23, 2003
The Man Who Wouldn't Be King
Ben Franklin and John Adams sign the peace treaty with England, ending the Revolutionary War, but General Washington must thwart a potential uprising by his frustrated officers.
Episode 39 • Apr 01, 2003
Going Home
With the signing of the Treaty of Paris, loyalists are forced to leave their homes.
Episode 40 • Apr 02, 2003
We the People
With the new nation falling apart under the Articles of Confederation, America's leaders meet at a convention in Philadelphia and decide to write a radical new Constitution.

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