Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

With surfboards tucked under their arms, half a dozen school-aged boys clad in matching green swim trunks and yellow rash guards ran from the beach into the foam and paddled out into the Atlantic.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on ...

Burns requested photographs of a handful of the AAS' collection items to use in the documentary, including newspapers and a ...

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to “the voice of God,” the phase once associated with ...

Ken Burns is back. A storyteller of America for nearly 50 years, the lauded documentary maker has a new series airing on PBS — and yes, it’s another epic. Having made his name in the 1990s with The ...

Ken Burns is a genius. Intelligent and thought-provoking and brilliant. Perhaps the best quote is: [When asked] “‘What do you ...

Last week, the iconic American documentary filmmaker Ken Burns released his latest series: a six-part, 12-hour film on the American revolution. The film follows dozens of figures from various ...

Washington Gave Bigotry No Sanction. We Should Do the Same Mr. Conservative and the Minister Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects This Thanksgiving, Heed the Words of George Washington Thanksgiving Day ...

Ken Burns' latest documentary, "The American Revolution," was financially supported by the Better Angels Society. The Better Angels Society is a nonprofit that has raised over $100 million for Burns ...