Ken Burns' latest documentary, "The American Revolution," was financially supported by the Better Angels Society. The Better Angels Society is a nonprofit that has raised over $100 million for Burns ...

Burns requested photographs of a handful of the AAS' collection items to use in the documentary, including newspapers and a ...

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Ken Burns’s new documentary series includes history often left out of textbooks: the economic and diplomatic roles sovereign Indigenous nations had in the American Revolution. The American Revolution, ...

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

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Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to “the voice of God,” the phase once associated with ...

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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 ...

Like every great Ken Burns documentary, the letters and writings of the people involved are an important part of telling the story. The American Revolution is no exception, and the actors involved are ...