In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The ...

Ken Burns joins GQ as he revisits some of the most iconic films from his career so far: from Brooklyn Bridge to ...

Ken Burns' mammoth new TV series, Jazz, is an artistic triumph packed with expert insight, terrific visuals and fantastic music. Now, if he can just get a few million people to watch it. Even Burns, a ...

The late composer, musician and bandleader Duke Ellington once said, ''I contend that the Negro is the creative voice of America, IS creative America, and it was a happy day when the first unhappy ...

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 ...

This is the hardly exaggerated implication of Ken Burns’s Jazz documentary, and it’s one well worth pondering — not for what it says about the great Satchmo, but for what it says about a tightly ...

The seed for Ken Burns' 10-episode, 19-hour documentary "Jazz" was planted back in 1991 when jazz trumpeter Wynton Marsalis came up to the filmmaker after a speech at an awards dinner at the ...

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 ...