Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" made PBS history as the six-part documentary landed as the No. 10 most-watched streaming acquired title.

Ken Burns’s latest PBS series is long on muskets and bayonets, but the history of the American Revolution remains strangely understated.

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary school. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” says director David Schmidt ...

A historic Connecticut property recently was featured in a PBS documentary about the American Revolution. East Lyme's Samuel ...

"As I was revising my little book on the Battle of Bennington earlier this year, I wondered how Burns and Atkinson would ...

A truckload (or ambulance-load) of Emmys and acclaim later, "Pitt" has become synonymous with the very best of what ...

I watched the Ken Burns series, The American Revolution. It is his usual outstanding and comprehensive documentary film. The ...

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Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...

There’s never a bad time to explore and consider the origin story of the United States, but now feels like a particularly relevant period for reexamining who we are and what we stand for as a nation.

Today's guest is Ken Burns, the filmmaker who has massively reshaped national conversations about everything from the Civil War to baseball to jazz to immigration to national parks with epic ...

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