The Sons of Liberty would eventually include Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, Benjamin Edes, John Hancock, Patrick Henry, James Otis, Benjamin Rush, and Oliver Wolcott.

'Sons of Liberty' star Ben Barnes, who plays Samuel Adams, calls scripted drama's historical characters an 'Ocean's Eleven' team. ... Today the name Samuel Adams is commonly associated with beer.

BOSTON — Don’t let the powdered wigs and oil paintings fool you: Samuel Adams, John Hancock and the other eventual Americans who changed the course of history were a ragtag band of secr… ...

In this 2014 photo released by the History Channel, Ben Barnes plays the role of Sam Adams in "Sons of Liberty," a new miniseries premiering in January 2015 on the History Channel.

In this 2014 photo released by the History Channel, Ben Barnes plays the role of Sam Adams in "Sons of Liberty," a new miniseries premiering in January 2015 on the History Channel.

American TV viewers got to see part one of the History Channel's mini-series about Samuel Adams and the Sons of Liberty on Sunday night, and true to its word, the series was more fiction than fact.

Samuel Adams worked for the British as a tax collector. ... “Sons of Liberty,” which unlike many of the others is a scripted story, uses several of those techniques, ...

Samuel Adams (played by British actor Ben Barnes) fights off redcoats in the History Channel miniseries “Sons of Liberty. ... as a swashbuckling Samuel Adams and the impatient hero of the piece.

Sam Adams was 51 when the Sons of Liberty threw all that tea overboard. Barnes looks even younger than his actual age, 33. The hunky history drama begins in 1765, and when we first glimpse Samuel ...