Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

Ken Burns' PBS documentary "The American Revolution" represents the best of filmmaking and a vital examination of the ...

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

PHILADELPHIA − Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been trying to tell the story of America for 10 years. It's just a coincidence that it's premiering in a political moment in which America ...

In 1990, a fresh-faced documentarian managed to do the impossible. Over the course of nine September nights on PBS, Ken Burns got millions of Americans excited about their own history with his series ...

Ken Burn's "American Revolution" documentary shows that war had profound implications for humanity, notion of equality of all ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant since the birth of Christ. Ken Burns shares 3 thoughts on upcoming 'American ...