In his newest PBS series, Ken Burns trains his slow-zooming gaze on the American Revolution and finds a bloody mess led by a deeply flawed commander, fought in guerrilla style by soldiers as young as ...

Amid the nation's upcoming semiquincentennial celebrations comes a new, 12-hour, six-part series from America's master of documentary television. Directed by Ken Burns, "The American Revolution" ...

Ken Burns attends a discussion of the book "The Small and the Mighty" at 92NY on September 25, 2024 in New York City (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

Keene State has a long-standing relationship with Florentine Films, the production house of Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker known for his American history narratives. The connection between Keene ...

Burns' anticipated six-part docuseries "The American Revolution" premieres at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16 nationwide on PBS, ...

LEXINGTON — Anyone who has seen the work of renowned documentarian Ken Burns knows he has a way of bringing history to life. For four decades he has captured the stories of people and places from ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns called the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting shortsighted, warning that the cuts will be catastrophic for new filmmakers and rural communities. He calls it a ...

Chancellor Robert M. Gates will be reinvested for his third-term during the ceremony, which launches the “Year of Civic ...

David McMahon has been making award-winning documentary films for more than a decade. With Ken Burns and Sarah Burns, he wrote, directed and produced The Central Park Five, a two-hour film about the ...

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to “the voice of God,” the phrase once associated with ...

All meaning for everybody, accrues in duration. The work that you're proudest of, the relationships you care most about, have benefited from your sustained attention. And that's really one of the big ...