CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (June 5, 2026) - On the eve of the 251st anniversary of the Battle of Bunker Hill, the City of Boston, the Charlestown Historical Society and public media leader GBH will host a special screening and conversation with selections from Ken Burns’ award-winning PBS documentary The American Revolution, featuring the battle of Bunker Hill.
The event will take place on Tuesday, June 16, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in the Bunker Hill Museum Community Room, 43 Monument Square, street level, Charlestown. Residents from Charlestown, Boston and beyond are invited to gather in the shadow of the Bunker Hill Monument for the screening, followed by conversation with Battle of Bunker Hill historians, archaeologists, researchers and descendants of those who fought on June 17, 1775.
As part of the event, the Charlestown Historical Society will feature participants from its annual Brothers of the Battle of Bunker Hill descendant program and launch its newest public history initiative, Revolutionary Roadshow, which showcases family artifacts, heirlooms, documents, journals and ephemera preserved by descendants of Battle of Bunker Hill soldiers.