Ken Burns produces the first-ever documentary on Henry David Thoreau, which moves beyond famous one-liners to explore his ...

The writer of Walden has been flattened into a caricature, but Henry David Thoreau was much more than a "prophetic hermit," ...

PBS has taken a sly shot at Donald Trump. Earlier this year, it was believed the beloved network's days were numbered after the president signed an executive order to cut federal funding to public ...

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his latest series, Ken Burns, veteran of renowned documentaries on the Civil and Vietnam wars, tells the story of the ordinary ...

Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...