Ken Burns’s obsession with this country can be felt in all 234 hours of his roughly 40 films—including his latest mega-doc, The American Revolution. At a moment when we are once again arguing about ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Tulsa-based Cherokee filmmaker and film executive played a pivotal part in ensuring that Ken Burns' eagerly awaited docuseries ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

For many Americans, the Revolutionary War was the country’s star-spangled origin story, a righteous battle between home-grown patriots and invading British forces, which ended in the triumphant ...

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...

When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premieres on PBS on Sunday, Nov. 16, it will mark the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premiered on PBS, it marked the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says these ...