**The Pilgrims: American Experience - Film History Livestream - Hosted by Robert Kelleman**

November is the 425th anniversary of the arrival of the Pilgrims in 1620.
Join us for a screening of the excellent PBS documentary film “**The Pilgrims**.”

The first portion of our program, approximately 15-20 minutes, will be a brief overview of the film, including its historical context, plot summary, things to look for, accuracy, etc.
The second portion of our program will be a full screening of the film.
During the screening we invite you to participate in a discussion of the film with your fellow participants via Zoom.

**The Pilgrims - Film Description**
Arguably one of the most fateful and resonant events of the last half millennium, the Pilgrims journey west across the Atlantic in the early 17th century is a seminal, if often misunderstood episode of American and world history. The Pilgrims explores the forces, circumstances, personalities and events that converged to exile the English group in Holland and eventually propel their crossing to the New World; a story universally familiar in broad outline, but almost entirely unfamiliar to a general audience in its rich and compelling historical actuality.

**The Pilgrims - Film Trailer**
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvBCPxktydE

**The Pilgrims**, also known as the Pilgrim Fathers, were the English settlers who traveled to America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in Plymouth, Massachusetts (John Smith had named this territory New Plymouth in 1616, coincidentally sharing the name of the Pilgrims' final departure port of Plymouth, Devon.). The Pilgrims' leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownists, or Separatist Puritans, who had fled religious persecution in England for the tolerance of 17th-century Holland in the Netherlands.
They held many of the same Puritan Calvinist religious beliefs but, unlike most other Puritans, they maintained that their congregations should separate from the English state church, which led to them being labeled Separatists. After several years living in exile in Holland, they determined to establish a new settlement in the New World and arranged with investors to fund them. They established Plymouth Colony in 1620, where they erected Congregationalist churches. The Pilgrims' story became a central theme in the history and culture of the United States.

**Mayflower** was an English sailing ship that transported a group of English families, known today as the Pilgrims, from England to the New World in 1620. After 10 weeks at sea, Mayflower, with 102 passengers and a crew of about 30, reached what is today the United States, dropping anchor near the tip of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on November 21 [O.S. November 11], 1620.

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Your host for this program is **Robert Kelleman**, the founder/director of the non-profit community organizations Washington, DC History & Culture and Texas History & Culture.

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