Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein on telling the story of “The American Revolution” in their docuseries. Filmmaker Ken Burns’ newest documentary, “The American Revolution,” premieres on Detroit PBS on ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual projects. That’s because he doesn’t really make subpar documentaries, although ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — On a chilly midweek afternoon, hundreds of New York City high school students gathered in the pews of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan. The lesson was “Who tells your story?” The ...

Testing the human animal’s tolerance for plaintive fiddles, wheezy bagpipes, Peter Coyote and the whispery recitations of diary entries, “The American Revolution” is the most Ken Burns-y of Ken Burns ...