As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

Documentary historian Ken Burns contended that major events and legislative efforts throughout U.S. history have always experienced a level a pushback.

The documentarian will hold a live talk at Seattle's McCaw Hall on July 14, during which a sneak preview of the documentary ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...

"The Civil War" was remastered once before, in 2002, when it was released in digital format. But for this edition, Burns's team at Florentine Films went back to the raw source material.

But as with the Civil War, Burns seeks themes beyond battlefield maps. “It’s less the individual stories of a particular state,” he said, ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because it's "an unbelievable guide to who we are." The Revolutionary War is ...

For four decades he has captured the stories of people and places from significant events such as The Holocaust and the Civil War. Burns was in Lexington on Thursday, April 17, to speak about his ...