The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ...

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 ...

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

Burns' new PBS docuseries features a star-studded voice cast, including Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. The post The most famous ...

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made ...

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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Directed by Ken Burns with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, “The American Revolution” takes away the trimmings of nostalgia ...

Ken Burns spent a decade creating his documentary series about "The American Revolution." It couldn't have come at a more pressing time.

Saying that the most patriotic act you can commit this month is to watch director Ken Burns' six-part, 12-hour "The American Revolution" is a little like saying you have to eat your vegetables. But ...

Victor Davis Hanson blows up "the myth" used by Ken Burns to claim the Founding Fathers got the idea for democracy from the Iroquois.