American history, when told well, resists the tidy progressions we like to imagine for it. Two recent works -- Ken Burns and ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is on the war path again. He’s already created memorable series on the Vietnam War, the Civil ...

Director Ken Burns is well known for his often-multipart PBS films about varied segments of the ongoing history of America, ...

In part one, we hear from award-winning documentarian Ken Burns about his latest film ... a six-part documentary titled "The ...

Ken Burns’s childhood in Newark and his mother’s cancer death shaped his storytelling, reflected in his new series The ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns calls the American Revolution the most important event since the birth of Christ, and it all began in ...

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the ...

As a promising high school history student, I wrote an incisive B+ essay making the iron-clad case that the American Revolution was anything but, in terms of the kind of fundamental change a ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution reveals the human side of America’s founding in a story both messy and magnificent.

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.