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

Ken Burns has been telling the story of America through his entire career with genre-defining documentaries on the Civil War, the Vietnam War, and now the American Revolution. This week, Ben and Max ...

CHICAGO — Thirty-five years ago, I stood with filmmaker Ken Burns at what was then called the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum). He was telling me some advice that Southern ...

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

The American Revolution is a new documentary that will premiere for a two-hour episode, In Order to Be Free, on PBS at 8 pm on Sunday, November 16, with 5 subsequent episodes airing on consecutive ...

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 ...

Saying that the most patriotic act you can commit this month is to watch director Ken Burns' six-part, 12-hour "The American Revolution" is a little like saying you have to eat your vegetables. But ...

"The American Revolution," the latest work from filmmaker Ken Burns, begins this Sunday on PBS. The six-part, 12-hour history of the war of independence from Britain and the beginnings of the American ...

It's rarely a good sign when a network launches a new season with reruns as its standard bearer. But, aside from pledge-break time, when PBS stations are more annoying than a bad sitcom, the Public ...

Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...