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 ...

Ken Burns, the preeminent documentary filmmaker of his generation, knows how to captivate audiences, whether it's with history or a quip. When he told hundreds of fans at a Wayne State University ...

In his latest series, Ken Burns, veteran of renowned documentaries on the Civil and Vietnam wars, tells the story of the ordinary men and women who took on the mighty British Empire to found a new ...

The new Ken Burns documentary "The American Revolution" premieres Nov. 16 on PBS (check local listings). Celebrities including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Ethan Hawke voice historical figures in the ...

A powerful new documentary series from acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt is set to premiere on PBS this fall. The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour series, will ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is on the war path again. He’s already created memorable series on the Vietnam War, the Civil War and World War II. Now he’s tracking the mother of those wars, the war ...

South Carolina is a major focus of a new documentary series directed by Ken Burns, and he said it’s his most crucial project in his nearly 50 years of filmmaking. The new six-part series entitled “The ...

Sarah Botstein has for more than two decades produced some of the most widely-watched and acclaimed documentaries on PBS. Her work, in collaboration with directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, includes ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns defended federal funding for PBS on Hasan Minhaj's podcast, warning rural areas could become a "news desert" without it.