In 1990, a fresh-faced documentarian managed to do the impossible. Over the course of nine September nights on PBS, Ken Burns got millions of Americans excited about their own history with his series ...

Step forward Ken Burns, king of US documentary making. His prolific catalogue — whose subjects range from baseball to the ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

Saying that the most patriotic act you can commit this month is to watch director Ken Burns' six-part, 12-hour "The American Revolution" is a little like saying you have to eat your vegetables. But ...

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 ...

The American Revolution is a new documentary that will premiere for a two-hour episode, In Order to Be Free, on PBS at 8 pm on Sunday, November 16, with 5 subsequent episodes airing on consecutive ...

In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant since the birth of Christ. Ken Burns shares 3 thoughts on upcoming 'American ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is on the war path again. He’s already created memorable series on the Vietnam War, the Civil War and World War II. Now he’s tracking the mother of those wars, the war ...

As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday next year, TV’s most eloquent historian, Ken Burns, reminds us in his latest sweeping epic just how grueling the nation’s birth pangs were. “It’s ...

The six-episode, 12-hour extravaganza, The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt, closes with a famous passage written by the esteemed Philadelphia physician, Dr.

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...