Ken Burns Still Thinks America Is Perfectible

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...
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Revolutionary War Was A Civil War Too, Says Ken Burns

The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ...
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Ken Burns shares 3 thoughts on upcoming 'American Revolution' series

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...
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Ken Burns says current times 'equal' to Civil War, Depression and WWII

LOS ANGELES - Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recently compared current issues to "three great crises" of the past in America: the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. Burns, an ...

Ken Burns’ ‘The American Revolution’ Is a Vast Account of Our Country’s Origin Story: TV Review

Six months away from its 250th year, the United States of America is still in its infancy. It is an empire forever moving and shifting, trying to decide what it will be. Prolific documentarian Ken ...

'With 'The American Revolution' series, director Ken Burns warns against the tendency to judge heroes of the past through the eyes of the present'

COLUMN. In a spectacular documentary, the filmmaker advocates for a nuanced and diverse understanding of the history of the ...
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Epic Story Of The Revolutionary War Is Burns At His Best

Ken Burns has produced a documentary about the Revolutionary War that sets a new standard for historical documentaries. This has been said of Burns before, at least since “The Civil War” premiered in ...