Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

Oscar contender 'The Librarians' will anchor the winter season of 'Independent Lens,' the long-running PBS documentary series ...

A PBS documentary, “Becoming Thurgood,” offers a look at the early life of the iconic civil rights lawyer and first Black ...

The 2008 film on the Iraq war, deemed too pro-military at the time, has now been labeled antiwar. Can both be true?

While I support George Will’s E-R 11/14 syndicated column endorsement of the upcoming Ken Burns PBS documentary on the Revolutionary War (i.e., “The American Revolution” will immerse viewers in an ...

Today's guest is Ken Burns, the filmmaker who has massively reshaped national conversations about everything from the Civil ...

On Tuesday, Nov. 25, 2025, Frontline, the PBS documentary series produced at GBH in Boston, and The Associated Press will present the U.S. broadcast and streaming premiere of “2000 Meters to Andriivka ...

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is back with a new PBS documentary chronicling how America’s founding reshaped the world. Co-directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, The American ...

The six-part documentary explores the United States’ founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, examining how these “turned the world upside-down.” It airs nightly through Nov. 21.

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 ...

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...