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 ...
Wicked Local

'American Revolution' is a new Ken Burns documentary. Here's how and when to watch it

The documentary aims to look at the Revolution from multiple perspectives, moving beyond common myths. A large cast of actors, including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Morgan Freeman, will voice ...
Military.com

How Ken Burns’ Revolutionary War Series Reveals the War Within

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...
The Baltimore Sun

Q&A: In ‘The American Revolution,’ Ken Burns’ filmmakers go back to the beginning

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premiered on PBS, it marked the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says these ...
The New York Times

What ‘The American Revolution’ Says About Our Cultural Battles

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Ken Burns Says His New Documentary Forced Him to Revisit Everything He Thought He Knew About the American Revolution

Ahead of the PBS production’s premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the ...
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Ken Burns: American Revolutionaries Were 'Exactly Like Us'

Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns sits down with TODAY’s Craig Melvin to talk about his new 6-part, 12-hour project called “The American Revolution” and how it took him longer to make it ...
New York Post

Ken Burns on why the American Revolution is ‘the most important event in history after the birth of Christ’

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...