PHILADELPHIA – After capturing hundreds of hours of footage, over a decade, for his new docuseries “The American Revolution,” filmmaker Ken Burns knew the epic story had to begin with Benjamin ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1990, a fresh-faced documentarian managed to do the impossible. Over the course of nine September nights on PBS, Ken Burns got ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s been 250 years since the start of the American Revolution, and the extent to which our nation has matured into a ...

The main characters in Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" aren't exactly strangers. The new PBS docuseries, which premiered Sunday, spends ample time with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and so ...

A brief look back at the Battle of Bunker Hill from Ken Burns looks ahead to his upcoming six-part documentary Ken Burns’s latest documentary series, “The American Revolution,” doesn’t start airing ...

Patriotism is in full effect for the Fourth of July.

Divided into six episodes, the Ken Burns documentary presents the stark reality of the United States, far from the often ...

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 ...

In a recent interview, Ken Burns said that the American Revolution was the most important human event since the birth of Christ. While historians (and theologians) may debate this claim, what cannot ...

Ken Burns talks to Jacobin about his new documentary, The American Revolution; the ongoing project of 1776; and why the Declaration of Independence was far more than a revolt of slaveholders and the ...

The Surrender of General Burgoyne at Saratoga, October 16, 1777. By John Trumbull, ca. 1822-1832. British Lieutenant General John Burgoyne hands his sword in surrender to American Major General ...