PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S. history. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic In mentioning Ken Burns‘ ...

How do you take your history? Straight up, no chaser? Or something a little jazzier and amusing? Luckily, television isn’t a bar (though I don’t trust any bars that don’t have televisions), so you don ...

This Q&A was originally published in May. We're bringing it back now because Ken Burns' documentary on the American Revolution premiered on PBS this week. The Q&A has been edited for length and ...

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PHILADELPHIA − Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has been trying to tell the story of America for 10 years. It's just a coincidence that it's premiering in a political moment in which America ...

American history has never sounded so cool — or so A-list. Everyone's favorite documentary filmmaker Ken Burns returns to PBS Nov. 16 with "The American Revolution." It's a six-part, 12-hour treatise ...

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 ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...

Ken Burns’ latest documentary series for PBS, “The American Revolution,” a sprawling six-episode, 12-hour examination of our nation’s beginnings, premieres Sunday, Nov. 16, and airs through Friday, ...

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

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, ...