AMERICA IS THE MOST PUNK ROCK THING THAT EVER HAPPENED.
America: The Unfinished Revolution follows a musician given an impossible assignment: write a song powerful enough to help hold a fractured nation together.
Drawing on decades of travel, performance, and conversations across America, the film explores what artists uniquely witness from the stage and on the road. Through the people they have met and the stories they have carried with them, a larger question emerges: Can the promise of America survive the divisions of our time?
Part concert film and part civic exploration, the documentary examines the unfinished work of the American experiment—from the Revolution and Lincoln to Martin Luther King Jr. and the challenges of the AI era. Along the way, the search for a song becomes a search for something larger: a shared story capable of reminding us who we are, what we stand for, and what kind of nation we still hope to become.
If America is an unfinished revolution, what is our generation being called to finish?
AMERICA: THE UNFINISHED REVOLUTION
Our Flagship film, America: The Unfinished Revolution, explores how music can uplift a nation – and give America it’s voice back.
Watch these trailers and join the movement to restore our real national vision for America. (*Original title: Traitor - A Story of Patriots)
WELCOME TO THE SOUND OF CHANGE
Striking a chord deep inside our collective identities, throughout history music has shown a unique ability to unite nations and ignite cultural revolution. Lasting change rarely comes quickly or easily, but artists everywhere have long served to amplify unspoken voices of the people and serve as a driving force behind lasting reformation. Every movement needs its soundtrack…
“Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.”
Behind the Filmmaker
Join Somewhere I Read founder Jen Appel as she shares the compelling journey inside the making of America: The Unfinished Revolution ( original title- Traitor: A Story of Patriots.)
Read her recent op-ed in NY Weekly, “Art as a Catalytic Force and What Makes for Genuinely Effective Civic Leadership with Real Community Impact.”