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

A new documentary hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. revisits the longstanding relationship between Black and Jewish Americans.

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

We still have a few days until Black Friday officially gets underway, but Amazon has already started dropping some incredible streaming deals ahead of the big shopping day. Fans of PBS, Ken Burns, and ...

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is back with a new PBS documentary chronicling how America’s founding reshaped the world. Co-directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, The American ...

In this first part of our five-part series on the history of Islam, we explore the reign of Abu Bakr, the first caliph. Discover how he consolidated the Muslim community after the Prophet Muhammad’s ...

PHILADELPHIA − Standing outside Independence Hall, the building in which America's forebears signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, even iconic documentarian Ken Burns can't help but ...

Austin (CNN) — Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all ...

The documentary aims to look at the Revolution from multiple perspectives, moving beyond common myths. A large cast of actors, including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Morgan Freeman, will voice ...

As a co-director of “The American Revolution,” the six-part PBS documentary that premieres on Sunday, David Schmidt seems in every sense thoroughly modern. And yet, he said in an interview, “I like to ...

Documentarian Ken Burns features Fort Ticonderoga in his new PBS docuseries “The American Revolution,” airing Sunday at 8 p.m. Directed by Burns, alongside Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, and ...