In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the ...

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against ...

The acclaimed filmmaker’s PBS documentary is a captivating look at the fear, risk and courage that forged a country ...

Hundreds of New York City high school students gathered at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan for a lesson led by filmmaker ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premieres on PBS on Sunday, Nov. 16, it will mark the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says ...

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

The British Broadcasting Corp. is at the center of a transatlantic controversy over its journalism. But it’s not the first ...

In Burns’ portrayal of the Revolution, LGBTQ people are not only erased but defamed, reduced to a caricatured trope instead ...

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.

More than two decades after the Washington, D.C., sniper attacks paralyzed the nation’s capital, a new documentary is reframing one of America’s most frightening crime sprees through the eyes of the ...