Watch a preview of THE PILGRIMS.

The converging forces, circumstances, personalities and events that propelled a group of English men and women west across the Atlantic in 1620.

Learn more about THE PILGRIMS, including where to watch the documentary: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/pilgrims/

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.