The Beauty and Anguish of Les Misérables! (feat. Lindsay Ellis) | It's Lit! | PBS Digital Studios

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Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables is one of history’s most famous novels and one of the longest-running musicals in Broadway history. On this special episode of It’s Lit! we explore how Les Miserable became both a national and revolutionary anthem, and so publicly adored that all 1,900 pages never went out of print.

Be sure to tune into the new Les Misérables adaptation on Masterpiece on PBS. You can stream it on PBS.org, PBS Video app on your Apple TV, Roku, Chromecast.

Interested in using this video as a teaching resource? Check it out on PBS LearningMedia: https://to.pbs.org/3AgSrvu

Written by Princess Weekes & Lindsay Ellis
Directed by David Schulte
Animation by Jordan Husmann
Fact Checked: by Yvonne McGreevy
Produced by Stephanie Noone

Executive in Charge (PBS): Adam Dylewski