Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns visited the Concord Carlisle High School during an April, 2025 tour through Massachusetts that coincided with the 250th anniversary of "the shot heard 'round the world" and the start of America's Revolutionary War. In the high school theater, he introduced a film clip from his upcoming documentary, The American Revolution, highlighting the tense and pivotal battles of Lexington and Concord that ignited the war.

Following the screening, Jennifer Moore, Statewide and Features Editor for GBH News, moderated a panel discussion with Ken Burns, co-director Sarah Botstein, and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson to explore the themes of courage, complexity, and the essential role of education in self-governance. The conversation connects past and present, settles an old Lexington-Concord score, and examines how the founding ideals of the Revolution still challenge and guide us today.