Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

Ken Burns' documentary on the American Revolution has generated much commentary, some supportive and some critical. Across ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns explains the importance of the American Revolution, telling "CBS Evening News" co-anchor and CBS News chief political analyst John Dickerson that he thinks it's "the most important ...

As the U.S. celebrates 249 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson spoke with documentarian Ken Burns about his new film on the American ...

When I’m asked to name the Mount Everest of interviews in my 45-year journalism career, my answer comes swiftly: Ken Burns, the director, co-producer, co-author and more of “The Civil War.” His ...

Does Ken Burns have anything to say about the attacks by Hispanics for leaving them out of the original version of The War? Does he ever! Didn’t you have to take on faith that the four towns you ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns highlighted Rhode Island's significant role in the American Revolution while promoting his new PBS series. Burns identified Nathanael Greene of Coventry as the second most ...

Today's guest is Ken Burns, the filmmaker who has massively reshaped national conversations about everything from the Civil War to baseball to jazz to immigration to national parks with epic ...

LEXINGTON — Anyone who has seen the work of renowned documentarian Ken Burns knows he has a way of bringing history to life. For four decades he has captured the stories of people and places from ...

Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein on telling the story of “The American Revolution” in their docuseries. Filmmaker Ken Burns’ newest documentary, “The American Revolution,” premieres on Detroit PBS on ...

The last in the series. I’m not sure whether this qualifies as a scoop or not, but I don’t believe I’ve seen Burns say that he plans to make a Vietnam documentary elsewhere (not that I’ve scoured all ...