That's a phrase that has been bandied about lately with the controversy over displaying the Confederate battle flag. Now viewers can experience again Ken Burns' seminal documentary that covered the ...

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

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 ...

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

It would be hard to imagine today, but for a week in the fall of 1990, it seemed almost everyone in America was watching the same thing, at the same time. Nearly 40 million people tuned in for at ...

Ken Burns is exploring the moment that started it all. Just before Burns'The American Revolution documentary series debuts in November, the celebrated historical filmmaker will release a companion ...

The documentary is thorough, engaging and — as is customary for Burns — tells the story through a first-rate cast of ...

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

Co-anchor, "CBS Evening News;" Chief political analyst and senior national correspondent; Contributo Award-winning journalist and author John Dickerson is co-anchor of the" CBS Evening News" and chief ...