{"id":114777,"date":"2026-10-21T17:41:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:41:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/announcing-217-films-new-documentary-glorious-morning-a-revolution-revealed-now-streaming-for-free-home-viewing\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T17:41:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T17:41:06","slug":"announcing-217-films-new-documentary-glorious-morning-a-revolution-revealed-now-streaming-for-free-home-viewing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/announcing-217-films-new-documentary-glorious-morning-a-revolution-revealed-now-streaming-for-free-home-viewing\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing 217 Films\u2019 New Documentary \u201cGlorious Morning: A Revolution Revealed\u201d: Now streaming for free home viewing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ashford, CT, Oct. 21, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Connecticut-based independent filmmakers Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton of 217 Films announce that their new film project is a full-length documentary on the important painters who chronicled the American Revolution and our emergence as a nation. \u201cGlorious Morning<\/em>: A Revolution Revealed\u201d is their tenth film in 20 years and the ninth \u201cessay in film\u201d by writer\/director Michael Maglaras.<\/p>\n

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John Trumbull (1756\u20131843), The Battle of Bunker’s Hill, June 17, 1775 (detail), 1786. Trumbull Collection, Yale University Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, John Trumbull, and Gilbert Stuart are the painters who chronicled the rising of our rebellion and the faces of those who brought about the Revolution that created a new world order,\u201d commented Maglaras. \u201cIn this new film we celebrate their legacy and the inspiration we still derive from their glorious work.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Copley (1738-1815) the artist of radical resistance and rebellion. Peale (1741-1827) the great artistic entrepreneur of the Revolution. Trumbull (1756-1843) the master painter of both the scenes of battle and the scenes of surrender, as we brought the British to their knees at Saratoga and Yorktown. Stuart (1755-1828) the great painterly poet of the Revolution…creating with grace and humanity our iconography…the faces that became what we now understand to be our \u201cfounding mothers and fathers.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThese painters were, in the case of Peale and Trumbull, men of action, who smelled gunpowder in the heat of battle as serving soldiers,\u201d said Maglaras. \u201cWith Gilbert Stuart, we see a singular artistic figure avoiding the conflict but giving us, with his iconic portraits of George Washington and others, our first sense of ourselves as a nation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Glorious Morning<\/em> uses more than 190 works of art celebrating the places and faces of American liberation and liberty. It was shot on location in Maine, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs we continue to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the birth of our republic, it\u2019s time to also pause and celebrate the great tradition of American painting, which begins but does not end with Copley, Peale, Trumbull, and Stuart,\u201d added Michael Maglaras.<\/p>\n

Stream \u201cGlorious Morning<\/em>: A Revolution Revealed\u201d for free, home viewing at this link: https:\/\/two17films.com\/free-streaming\/glorious-morning-a-revolution-revealed\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Explore the entire 217 Films catalogue – featuring documentaries on American art, history, and culture – all available for free home viewing at\u00a0two17films.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Public screenings may be requested by contacting the filmmakers at this link:\u00a0https:\/\/two17films.com\/contact\/<\/a><\/p>\n

More about 217 Films: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

217 Films is an independent film company devoted to the American artistic experience.\u00a0 In 2005, Michael Maglaras and Terri Templeton released their first film \u201cCleophas and His Own\u201d about the American painter Marsden Hartley’s epic narrative of love and loss. Maglaras both directed and played the role of Hartley in this film.\u00a0 In 2008, they released a second film about Hartley called \u201cVisible Silence:\u00a0 <\/em>Marsden Hartley, Painter and Poet\u201d \u2013 the first-ever documentary on the life of Hartley. In 2010, with their film \u201cJohn Marin: Let the Paint be Paint!<\/em>\u201d they established, through the first full-length documentary on this important painter, that John Marin was one of the fathers of American Modernism. These films, among other distinctions, have been shown to acclaim at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In 2012, they released \u201cO Brother Man<\/em>: The Art and Life of Lynd Ward,\u201d and in 2013 \u201cThe Great Confusion<\/em>: The 1913 Armory Show.\u201d 2015 saw a new film \u201cEnough to Live On<\/em>: The Arts of the WPA\u201d celebrating the ways in which Franklin Roosevelt used the arts to raise the spirits of the American people during the Great Depression. \u201cAmerica Rising: The Arts of the Gilded Age\u201d (2017) is the record of the very rising of America through its art and culture. As a personal homage to art scholar and groundbreaking documentarian, Lord Kenneth Clark, they released \u201cCivilisation<\/em> and America\u201d in 2020, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Public Television\u2019s premiere of the BBC\u2019s influential 13-part series Civilisation<\/em> on the history of culture, man, and the Western world.<\/p>\n

The first-ever full-length documentary on Ralph Waldo Emerson, \u201cRalph Waldo Emerson: Give All to Love,<\/em>\u201d was shot entirely at the Emerson home in Concord, Massachusetts, premiering in Concord in 2023.<\/p>\n

For more information:<\/p>\n

217 Films Website:\u00a0 www.two17films.com<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Announcing<\/p>\n

Gilbert Stuart (1755 \u2013 1828), George Washington (Vaughan portrait), 1795. Oil on canvas. Andrew W. Mellon Collection, National Gallery of Art.<\/p>\n

About 217 Films<\/strong><\/p>\n

217 Films is an independent film company devoted to the American artistic experience.<\/p>\n

Press Inquiries<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tami Burke
tamikennedy1 [at] gmail.com
https:\/\/www.two17films.com<\/a> <\/p>\n

A video accompanying this announcement is available here: https:\/\/youtube.com\/watch?v=vkypINDDMjk<\/a><\/p>\n

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