Three experts discuss their behind-the-scenes experience as historical advisers to the new series.

In the new Ken Burns documentary, an old myth—held by the left and right—is repeated: that chaos led to the need for the ...

Respected documentarian Ken Burns' latest project is a PBS docuseries that explores the American Revolution in extreme detail ...

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

Ken Burns and Steve Jobs made a $1 million deal to bring the "Ken Burns Effect" photo technique to iMovie in 2002.

Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...

There’s never a bad time to explore and consider the origin story of the United States, but now feels like a particularly relevant period for reexamining who we are and what we stand for as a nation.

Washington Gave Bigotry No Sanction. We Should Do the Same Mr. Conservative and the Minister Sorkin Rounds Up the Usual Suspects This Thanksgiving, Heed the Words of George Washington Thanksgiving Day ...

ATLANTA — Ken Burns revolutionized the way historical documentaries were made before the internet was even a common term, so it’s hardly a shock he’d eventually tackle America’s fight for independence ...

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 phase once associated with ...

We still have a few days until Black Friday officially gets underway, but Amazon has already started dropping some incredible streaming deals ahead of the big shopping day. Fans of PBS, Ken Burns, and ...