PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution reveals the human side of America’s founding in a story both messy and magnificent.

Ken Burns' new "American Revolution" series premieres Nov. 16 on PBS, filmed across 100 locations with storytelling from ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns calls the American Revolution the most important event since the birth of Christ, and it all began in ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

The name of the sitting U.S. president was never uttered during Thursday night’s New York premiere of Ken Burns’s PBS docuseries The American Revolution (nor, for the record, was the name Jimmy Kimmel ...

When Ken Burns started making his series on the American Revolution nearly a decade ago, he knew one of his biggest challenges would be casting George Washington. The renowned documentarian has worked ...

Documentarian Ken Burns talks about what he learned during the making of his latest project, “The American Revolution.” ...

Tomorrow marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's Battle of Antietam, one of the bloodiest days of any war. In honor of the sesquicentennial, the battle site is hosting a slew of events ...