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

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

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

I vowed after ‘The Civil War’ not to do any more war films,” says the master documentarian. “It hurt too much.” Lucky for us, he couldn’t keep his promise—paving the way for The American Revolution, ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. PBS may be worse for wear following federal ...

Ken Burns spent nearly 10 years creating his latest documentary about America's founding era. The filmmaker says the ...

Now Thorp is revisiting the case to uncover the truth and lies about what really happened to Downes. This eight-part podcast ...

As a promising high school history student, I wrote an incisive B+ essay making the iron-clad case that the American Revolution was anything but, in terms of the kind of fundamental change a ...

So “Ken Burns Civil War” and “The Wire” might be on one end and “Jerry Springer” and “My Mother the Car” on the other. Today ...

What should Democrats learn from it all, as they seek a way out of the political wilderness? What are they to make of ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution unfolds across six nights, tracing how Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley helped turn ...