Film / Television / Theatrical
Miscellaneous Reproduction Documents, Props
The American Revolution (2025)
Directed and executive produced by Ken Burns
Florentine Films / PBS
The American Revolution, a six-part, twelve-hour series on America’s founding struggle, presents a true-to-life account of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that tried their souls. Written by Geoffrey C. Ward, and produced by Sarah Botstein, David Schmidt, Salimah El-Amin, and Ken Burns, The American Revolution premiered November 16, 2025 on PBS Stations nationwide.
From Common Hands Studio was commissioned to recreate archival documents for the documentary.
1770 Yale University Diploma Digital Image and Reproduction
Land Deed Digital Image and Reproduction
1765 Boston Post Boy and Advertiser
Digital Image and Reproduction
Manual Exercises - Prop Book
History Hit TV - UK
Episode:
What Was Life as a British Soldier in the American Revolution Actually Like? LINK
Hit Networks LTD
Many thanks to Keith Bartlett for including our reproduction of Manual Exercises in this episode.
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Nat Turner Bible, Prop
Strange Inheritance with Jamie Colby
Fox Business Network,
Tower Productions, LLC
It is thought that Nat Turner was holding this Bible when he was captured two months after the1831 rebellion he led against slaveholders in Southampton County, Virginia.
Below is our interpretation of the Nat Turner Bible from what we where allowed to see from the original at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
For an episode of Strange Inheritance, we were asked to reproduce it in a newer state but showing "use".
1772 Bible, Prop
Meet Joseph Plumb Martin
Museum of the American Revolution
Meet Joseph Plumb Martin stars Patrick Poole as Joseph Plumb Martin and was written by Ryan Schwartz for the Museum of the American Revolution. This was the Museum's first original theatrical piece and debuted in 2018.
This 1772 New Testament Bible used by actor Patrick Poole interpreting Joseph Plumb Martin, a soldier in General George Washington's army. See the performance and interview here.
1830s West Point Army Cadet Books, Props
Pale Blue Eye (2022)
Scott Cooper, Director
Cross Creek Pictures, Netflix
Cooper’s thriller tells the story of a weathered detective’s unlikely partnership with a detail-orientated young cadet (Harry Melling) who would go on to become world famous author Edgar Allen Poe. Christian Bale stars as the veteran detective.
