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Weekly TV Music Roundup (November 16, 2025)

Premiering tonight is the PBS documentary series The American Revolution directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt about the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence. In a Circle Records has released a soundtrack album featuring the music from the show, including period and newly composed pieces for the project featuring performances by Jake Blount, Rhiannon Giddens, Brooklyn Rider, Hanneke Cassel, Nora Brown & Steph Coleman, Jennifer Kreisberg and Yo-Yo Ma, last week. Check out our soundtrack announcement for the full album details and to learn more about the 6-parter, which will air over six nights on PBS.

Premiering on Wednesday, November 19, is the Netflix original film Champagne Problems written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson and starring Minka Kelly, Tom Wozniczka, Thibault de Montalembert, Sean Amsing, Flula Borg, Xavier Samuel and Astrid Whettnall. Ryan Shore (Prime, Star Wars: Forces of Destiny, Love, Guaranteed, The Shrine, Bride Hard, Love in the Villa, Harvard Man) has composed the movie’s original music. Check out our previous news article for more information about the romantic comedy, which will be available to stream exclusively on Netflix.

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‘The American Revolution’ Soundtrack Album Details

In a Circle Records will release a soundtrack album for the PBS documentary series The American Revolution. The album features the music from the show, including period and newly composed pieces for the project featuring performances by Rhiannon Giddens, Jake Blount, Brooklyn Rider, Nora Brown & Steph Coleman, Hanneke Cassel, Jennifer Kreisberg and Yo-Yo Ma. The soundtrack will be released digitally and on CD this Friday, November 7 and is now available for pre-order on Amazon. The American Revolution is directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt and explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence. The 6-parter is being released to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the start of the war, which began in the spring of 1775, more than a year before the Declaration of Independence.

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Ken Burns’ ‘The American Revolution’ to Feature Music by Johnny Gandelsman, Rhiannon Giddens, David Cieri & Others

PBS announced this week that Johnny Gandelsman, Rhiannon Giddens, Jennifer Kreisberg, David Cieri, Yo-Yo Ma and Richard Evans are contributing music to the upcoming documentary series The American Revolution. The show directed and produced by Ken Burns (Brooklyn Bridge, The Vietnam War, The Statue of Liberty), Sarah Botstein (The U.S. and the Holocaust) & David Schmidt, written by long-time collaborator Geoffrey C. Ward and examines how America’s creation turned the world upside-down. The 6-parter is narrated by Peter Coyote and includes the first-person voices of nearly 200 individual historic figures, read by a cast of actors, including Kenneth Branagh, Josh Brolin, Hugh Dancy, Claire Danes, Jeff Daniels, Alden Ehrenreich, Craig Ferguson, Morgan Freeman, Paul Giamatti, Domhnall Gleeson, Tom Hanks, Ethan Hawke, Maya Hawke, Lucas Hedges, Josh Hutcherson, Samuel L. Jackson, Michael Keaton, Joel Kinnaman, Tracy Letts, Damian Lewis, Laura Linney, Edward Norton, David Oyelowo, Mandy Patinkin, Wendell Pierce, Liev Schreiber, Chaske Spencer, Dan Stevens, Meryl Streep, among others.

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