The American Revolution is a new documentary that will premiere for a two-hour episode, In Order to Be Free, on PBS at 8 pm on Sunday, November 16, with 5 subsequent episodes airing on consecutive ...

Acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns joined The Better Angels Society today to announce the Hindsight Film Festival, America's first major national film festival exclusively for historical documentaries, set ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

CHICAGO — Thirty-five years ago, I stood with filmmaker Ken Burns at what was then called the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum). He was telling me some advice that Southern ...

Documentary filmmaker discusses future projects on LBJ, reconstruction and CIA history.

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his reluctant body from bed before dawn to film reenactors at Old Sturbridge ...

During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his latest docuseries.

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress. Staff ...