Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

See where 'The U.S. and the Holocaust' lands in this totally biased and super unscientific evaluation of the legendary ...

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made ...

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

In his newest PBS series, Ken Burns trains his slow-zooming gaze on the American Revolution and finds a bloody mess led by a deeply flawed commander, fought in guerrilla style by soldiers as young as ...

Burns requested photographs of a handful of the AAS' collection items to use in the documentary, including newspapers and a ...

Ken Burns joins GQ as he revisits some of the most iconic films from his career so far: from Brooklyn Bridge to ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

Thirty-one oil paintings in Historic Beverly’s collection were shown in filmmaker Ken Burn’s new documentary “The American ...

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to “the voice of God,” the phrase once associated with ...

Race burbles through so many of Ken Burns’ films, a predominant subtext in the great American stories he chooses to tell. Twenty years ago this week, as Burns’ epic “Baseball” miniseries debuted and ...

Ken Burns attends a discussion of the book "The Small and the Mighty" at 92NY on September 25, 2024 in New York City (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...