‘The American Revolution' Review: Ken Burns Tackles the War for Independence in Patriotic, Pragmatic and Familiar Form

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.
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Ken Burns’ Delaware Valley Roots: How His Mother’s Battle with Cancer Forged a Passion for Storytelling

Ken Burns’s childhood in Newark and his mother’s cancer death shaped his storytelling, reflected in his new series The ...
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Ken Burns says current times 'equal' to Civil War, Depression and WWII

LOS ANGELES - Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recently compared current issues to "three great crises" of the past in America: the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. Burns, an ...
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Filmmaker reveals more war memories Ken Burns' new PBS series 'The War' explores conflict through eyes of soldiers

WALPOLE, N.H. -- When Ken Burns' "Civil War" hit public television in 1990, it was a revelation: Burns invested a faded period of American history with new life, color and emotion. The public does not ...
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Ken Burns' 'The Civil War' celebrates 25th anniversary on AETN

“The Civil War,” the award—winning film produced and directed by Ken Burns that first aired in September 1990, will be rebroadcast on the Arkansas Educational Television Network over five consecutive ...

Ken Burns on America's origin story: "The most important event since the birth of Christ"

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...
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Shane Gillis Muddles Through Opening Monologue: “Look, I Get It, You’re Pretty Liberal Here”

From joking about date rape drugs to exploring an extended bit about Ken Burns’ The Civil War docuseries, Shane Gillis’ second turn as host — from his previous and shortlived home of Saturday Night ...