A powerful new documentary series from acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt is set to premiere on PBS this fall. The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour series, will ...

Amid the nation’s upcoming semiquincentennial celebrations comes a new, 12-hour, six-part series from America’s master of documentary television. Directed by Ken Burns, “The American Revolution” ...

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written generations ago amid a violent conflict. It could only be documentary filmmaker ...

Dennis Edward Flake is the author of three books on Philippine-American history. He is a Public Historian and a former park ...

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The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...