The series was broadcast on the American Heroes Channel.

[1][2] The Siena College professor Jennifer Hull Dorsey, who serves as the McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution director, discussed the slave and spy James Armistead on the show.

[3] The series also discusses Joseph Warren, who enlisted Paul Revere to take his midnight ride, and the spy John Honeyman.

[4] In a mixed review, The New York Times television critic Neil Genzlinger said, ""The tales don’t go into much depth, and the re-enactments used to tell them are of uneven quality, but the selection earns points for variety.

"[6] The Observer's Karen Zautyk said she learned about Peter Francisco through the "wonderful series", writing, "From it, I learned a great deal — including the fact that I didn’t know as much about our fight for liberty as I thought I did.