Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution reveals the human side of America’s founding in a story both messy and magnificent.

Ken Burns’s childhood in Newark and his mother’s cancer death shaped his storytelling, reflected in his new series The ...

I vowed after ‘The Civil War’ not to do any more war films,” says the master documentarian. “It hurt too much.” Lucky for us, he couldn’t keep his promise—paving the way for The American Revolution, ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Ken Burns' new "American Revolution" series premieres Nov. 16 on PBS, filmed across 100 locations with storytelling from ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. PBS may be worse for wear following federal ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...

Ken Burns says his latest epic documentary shows America has been deeply divided since its earliest days, but that the story ...

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

This month’s grid is a collaboration between Ken Burns, a documentarian, and Christina Iverson, a puzzle editor.