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The pilgrims, a Steeplechase Films and WETA production in association with the BBC and CTVC for American Experience ; producer, Leigh Howell, Robin Espinola, Bonnie Lafave and Ric Burns ; written and directed by Ric Burns

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Rating: TV-PG

The pilgrims

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a Steeplechase Films and WETA production in association with the BBC and CTVC for American Experience ; producer, Leigh Howell, Robin Espinola, Bonnie Lafave and Ric Burns ; written and directed by Ric Burns

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"They were the least likely of task forces for establishing a permanent English presence in the New World: 102 men, women, and children in all {u2013} led by a tiny band of radical Protestant extremists {u2013} woefully undersupplied and unprepared, but spurred on by the dream of establishing a new heaven on Earth on the shores of the New World. Commemorated each year at Thanksgiving, no chapter in American history has been more clouded by myth, legend, and venerable cliché than the story of the Pilgrims. And yet the real story behind their historic voyage {u2013} who they were and where they came from; their harrowing first years in America and crucial interactions with Native Americans; and how and why we have come to remember them as we do {u2013} is a tale far more haunting and poignant than the one we think we know. From award-winning director Ric Burns, and with a moving final performance by Roger Rees as William Bradford, The Pilgrims explores the riveting true story of a small group of English Separatists whose determination to worship God as they saw fit planted the seeds of the American dream." --, Container

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