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 ...

Burns' new PBS docuseries features a star-studded voice cast, including Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. The post The most famous ...

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 ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), ...

Victor Davis Hanson blows up "the myth" used by Ken Burns to claim the Founding Fathers got the idea for democracy from the Iroquois.

Directed by Ken Burns with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, “The American Revolution” takes away the trimmings of nostalgia ...

NEW YORK (AP) — From the time it aired nearly 30 years ago, Ken Burns' Civil War documentary has been a popular sensation and subject of debate. The 11-hour, nine-part series premiered in September ...

Wokeness, paired with unhinged hatred of President Donald Trump, can infect even a respected filmmaker's work. According to ...

Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...

Sarah Botstein has for more than two decades produced some of the most widely-watched and acclaimed documentaries on PBS. Her work, in collaboration with directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, includes ...