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

Ken Burns at a June 4 panel in Austin (photo by Jay Godwin / Courtesy of LBJ Library) The story of the American Revolution isn’t just one of political revolution or tax avoidance.

Known for his work documenting wars like the American Civil War and Vietnam War, Burns and his team have previously had more tangible media to draw from for their films. Compelling photographs and ...

Burns was in Lexington on Thursday, April 17, to speak about his latest film, “The American Revolution,” just in time for the town’s celebration of the 250 th anniversary of the Battles of ...

American Revolution by Ken Burns and Geoffrey C. Ward will be available Nov. 11, 2025 and is available to preorder now, wherever books are sold. Read the original article on People ...

When you make plans to watch a Ken Burns documentary, you often have to clear out a lot of DVR space: 11 hours for “The Civil War,” 14 hours for “The Roosevelts” and, starting on Sept. 17 ...

While Burns encountered pockets of animus with his breakout historical work, The Civil War, in 1990, backlash at that time usually arrived via the U.S. Mail.

Legendary filmmaker Ken Burns says division in the United States today is as bad as it was before the Civil War, which remains the bloodiest conflict in America’s history. “If we’re going to ...

Documentarian Ken Burns recently compared current issues to “three great crises” of the past in America: the Civil War, the Great Depression and WWII.

Historian and documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on a podcast said that he sees the current era situation in America as comparable to the events that happened during the Civil War, Great Depression ...

Ken Burns Says Current Times ‘Equal’ to Civil War, Depression and World War II: ‘It’s Really Serious’ Leia Idliby Sep 20th, 2021, 1:01 pm ...