Ken Burns

You're building this thing.

It's not.

I live in New Hampshire.

We make maple syrup.

It takes 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup.

And so it's all reductive.

We have 12 hours in this six-part series, and we've got more than 500 hours of material.

filming reenactors for years, some of them dressed in French uniforms, some of them dressed in militia, some of them in British, some of them in continental, some of them German Hessians, some of them native, all of that stuff.

And then we're using it to help the building blocks of doing it.

At the same time, we've collected more than 12,000

of paintings and drawings.

We've taken maps.

We've got more maps in this than in all the other films we've made combined.

Sometimes we're just taking an old archival map and leaving it alone.

Sometimes we're taking an old archival map and just putting red and blue lines showing the movement of British and Continental soldiers.

Sometimes we're taking maps and sort of making our own hybrid map that gives us a little bit more control.

But all of these things we're just practicing.

I mean, I looked at something...

Earlier today, which was just a minute change on a map that we highlight where a British admiral wanted to attack all these seaport towns in Massachusetts and New Hampshire and Maine.

And the last one is Machias, which is up near the Canadian border.