With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Ken Burns is set to release a six-part series on the American ...

On June 3, just two hours before a live Q&A with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on his upcoming PBS documentary The American Revolution, President Donald Trump asked Congress to pull back the $1. ...

Ken Burns, one of the most critically acclaimed documentary filmmakers of the modern age, says the current threats to defund public media are likely the most existential the system has ever seen.

PBS filed a federal lawsuit Friday asking a court to block the May 1 executive order by the Trump White House to cut off funding to public media, calling the move a violation of the First Amendment.

PBS and Lakeland PBS in rural Minnesota are suing President Trump over his executive order demanding that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting kill all funding for the public television network.

PBS is short for Public Broadcasting Service. Its programming has included "Sesame Street," "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," "Frontline" and several Ken Burns documentaries including "The Civil War." ...

The public television court filings say PBS would lose $81 million per year in federal grants and "a substantial portion" of the $227 million that public TV stations pay it in order to run programs ...