How Hollywood Has Rewritten the American Revolution From Silent-Era Myths to Prestige TV, Here’s How America’s Founding Conflict Has Been Portrayed on Screen “The big ideas of the Revolution aren’t diminished by telling the truth. They’re made stronger by it.” — Ken Burns. Soldiers take aim in D. W. Griffith’s America (1924), photo made available under the public domain. For over a century, filmmakers and television producers have tried to bring the American Revolution to life. But how accurate