A new documentary on the American Revolution will soon shine a light on the events that launched a nation. Filmmaker Ken Burns, renowned for long-form documentaries like The Civil War, Baseball, and ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Well-known documentarian Ken Burns made a stop in Rhode Island Thursday to preview an upcoming documentary series of his that will be airing next month on PBS. Burns, along ...

CHICAGO — Thirty-five years ago, I stood with filmmaker Ken Burns at what was then called the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum). He was telling me some advice that Southern ...

Documentary filmmaker discusses future projects on LBJ, reconstruction and CIA history.

WALPOLE, N.H. -- When Ken Burns' "Civil War" hit public television in 1990, it was a revelation: Burns invested a faded period of American history with new life, color and emotion. The public does not ...

We tend to think we know a lot about the Revolutionary War since we learned “the greatest hits” in school—the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere’s famous ride, Washington’s crossing of the Delaware. It’s ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In November, the American public will watch a very powerful documentary ...

The American Revolution is a new documentary that will premiere for a two-hour episode, In Order to Be Free, on PBS at 8 pm on Sunday, November 16, with 5 subsequent episodes airing on consecutive ...

Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...