During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his ...

Ramtin talks with filmmaker Ken Burns about the revolution that made the U.S., and the surprising lessons he thinks it holds ...

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PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus the Oklahoma History Center will ...

It was 1860 and America was at an inflection point. It wasn't just slavery that was on trial: the Founding Fathers' vision itself was up for grabs. A growing segment of America’s population—mostly in ...

Adrian Gillette's documentary on the only school book banning case to be heard by SCOTUS not only earned him national recognition but also a meeting with Ken Burns. Florida freeze map update as nearly ...

BETTENDORF, Iowa — A Bettendorf middle school student who earned national recognition for a documentary on school book bans has now received guidance from one of the most renowned documentary ...

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 ...

Countless historians, over the years, have lamented that those who forget or ignore history are condemned to repeat it. Documentarian Ken Burns, now 72, shares that view. But in a late December ...

Cannon in silhouette from the Yorktown Battlefield at Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Va. (PBS) For the first time ever, PBS made its way into Nielsen’s top 10 streaming list, thanks to ...