Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...

The film, featuring a UVA professor, opens a three-day event that will bring people together to examine how America’s ...

N othing was ever quaint,” mused Ken Burns in a New York film studio last spring, as he made some last edits to his latest ...

It’s been 250 years since the start of the American Revolution, and the extent to which our nation has matured into a continent-spanning world power has, no doubt, exceeded the founding fathers’ ...

A powerful new documentary series from acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt is set to premiere ...

Ken Burns’s obsession with this country can be felt in all 234 hours of his roughly 40 films—including his latest mega-doc, The American Revolution. At a moment when we are once again arguing about ...

Several years ago, David Schmidt returned to his hometown to film sequences for Ken Burns’ documentary “The American Revolution,” believing “where else would you find a better place (than Williamsburg ...

On June 3, just two hours before a live Q&A with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns on his upcoming PBS documentary The American Revolution, President Donald Trump asked Congress to pull back the $1.1 ...

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 ...