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Is there not a video series which parents can purchase, that details the main points of the Revolutionary War and general U.S. History? If anyone knows, please post the information.

The Commanding Heights, available from PBS, does a great job on the 20th Century. Give a great background on how we became a socialist state, and why we wouldn't want to continue to be one.

Regarding a good video series on the Revolution, there is a wonderful, wonderful series that is on PBS every now and then called, "Liberty, The American Revolution". It is beautifully done using the writings of those who lived during that era to tell the story. It also has hauntingly beautiful music. I have watched it numerous times, and am always inspired by it with a greater appreciation of what the early American patriots went through to gain liberty. The series also has a companion book that is excellent. You can check out the series at the PBS website: http://www.pbs.org/ktca/liberty/ Note: You may be able to find the series at your local library. Also at the website is a Revolutionary Game you can play. It is really a quiz with a lot of historical information given.

...the main points of the Revolutionary War and general U.S. History?

Even if you find a good video series, I suggest you check into the audio tapes done by
radio talkshow host Michael Medved.
He has some REALLY good audio tapes on The Revolutionary War that I suspect will be appreciated
by young students (and adults as well).

If Medved is on in your area, he SOMETIMES plays one of these tapes to fill in during
a holiday like Thanksgiving.
You can check out the selection of tapes at his website www.michaelmedved.com (I think marketing is
actually done via another entity).

I haven't bought any tapes myself, but if I had a child I'd probably be buying them.

I don't know where you fit on the religional scale, but his "God's Hand On America" is
a masterful telling of the "how could this have happened?" aspects of
the founding of the country.

I forgot that (suprisingly) the PBS Series "American Experience" actually has some pretty
decent American History episodes available on videotape.

I purchased the Ronald Reagan tape/box set for my brother...it was an amazingly balanced
portrait of Reagan, the human flaws, but delved into his psychology of how he went
from liberal Democrat, union president (the Screen Actors Guild) to conservative
Republican who shut down the Evil Empire.

Their recent four hour special on U.S. Grant was also really good.

Check out the series at www.pbs.org.

I suspect that this series may have been influenced by VP Cheney's wife as she was
at the National Endowment for the Humanities (IIRC) and they are often mentioned as partial
funders of American Experience espisodes.

James Burns's "Liberty" series is okay and tastefully done. It's available on Amazon. Other series of his I have:
Thomas Jefferson
Lewis & Clark - this one was very moving to me
The Civil War (9 tapes!)
The West (as in the settling of the West) (9 tapes!)

Sometimes he appears to have a liberal bias but on the whole he seems okay to me.

Other additional tapes I have
Theodore Roosevelt, by A&E Network
The World At War, 9 tapes on WWII
The Century, on the 20th Century

The Century might have liberal bias but I'm sure a Freeper can handle re-education their kids about that subject.