As the U.S. prepares to celebrate its 250th anniversary, Ken Burns is releasing a deep look into the fight for American ...

Though Burns is best known for landmark works like “The Civil War” (1990), “Baseball” (1994), “The Vietnam War” (2017), and “Brooklyn Bridge” (1981), he considers this project his most significant. “I ...

Tuesday, July 1 at 8 and 9 Thomas Jefferson is a two-part portrait of our enigmatic and brilliant third president. Part 1 at 8 PM — Jefferson also made himself into a true renaissance man – a scholar, ...

“The American Civil War is the most important event in American history because it’s just such a bloody affair,” Burns said in his Tuesday morning talk to students. “750,000 Americans died.

This nine-part series is the work that made documentarian Ken Burns a household name. Burns uses contemporary cinematography in addition to thousands of archival photographs, paintings and newspaper ...

Ken Burns’s latest documentary series, “The American Revolution,” doesn’t start airing for another five months. It debuts on PBS Nov. 16.

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on this 250th anniversary.

Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt are the directors of “The American Revolution” documentary series that will air on PBS beginning Nov. 16.

Ken Burns, Ric Burns, Buddy Squires, and Allen Moore discuss the making of The Civil War.

K en Burns has spent the last 40 years chronicling the most poignant and influential events in American history. The 66-year-old Oscar-nominated filmmaker has crafted definitive and multifaceted ...