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It’s not every day Tullahoma hosts a world premiere. Nov. 3 will be the exception.

On that evening South Jackson Performing Arts Center will host a screening of the acclaimed PBS filmmaker Ken Burns’s The American Revolution.

Motlow State College is partnering with South Jackson and WCTE PBS in Cookeville to bring the screening to Tullahoma.

The screening will start at 5:30 p.m.  Admission is free but seats are limited. To reserve your seat visit the link on South Jackson’s website and Facebook page.

Greg Gressel, Executive Director of South Jackson Performing Arts Center, is excited about hosting the screening. “I have been working for a couple of years to build a relationship with PBS and to bring more filmmaker work to the Center. What better way to start that than with a Ken Burns piece. We love this form of the Arts and hope to do more in the future that involves this art discipline.”

Motlow professors who will be at the screening as panelists include William Riley Parker, Dr. Ramona Shelton and Dr. Charles Wexler. The panelists will host a 20 minute open discussion of the film.

“WCTE PBS is proud to partner with South Jackson Performing Arts Center and Motlow Stare College to bring this remarkable film to Tullahoma,” said Avery Hutchins, President and CEO of WCTE PBS. “Ken Burns has an extraordinary gift for storytelling that brings history to life. His 2019 film ‘Country Music’ made his name especially familiar and beloved among Tennesseans.”

Audiences will have the rare opportunity to preview select portions of the series before it’s national broadcast November 16th and experience the stories, struggles and triumphs that shaped the birth of our nation as told by one of America’s most celebrated documentary filmmakers.

Eight years in the making, The American Revolution examines how the creation of the United States turned the world upside down. Thirteen British colonies rose in rebellion, secured their independence and established a new form of government that reshaped the continent and inspired democratic movements across the globe.

The national premiere is timed to coincide with the 250th anniversary of the start of the Revolutionary War in 1775.