America is celebrating its 250th birthday this year — marking 2½ centuries since the signing of the Declaration of Independence and the creation of the United States.

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

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Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts, 320 years ago. In recent days, I discovered Ken Burns’s two episodes on Benjamin Franklin that aired in April 2022 on PBS.

His “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago, ignited the drive for American independence. That was hardly the end of the ...

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Two paintings by Oklahoma artist Mike Wimmer are featured in Ken Burns' new PBS docuseries, "The American Revolution." The documentary series explores the founding of America and features voice work ...

Abraham Lincoln demonstrated beyond a reasonable doubt that our Founding Fathers believed slavery was a moral wrong.

FREE TO READ] The filmmaker is on a mission to strip the story of American independence of mythology and nostalgia ...

The six-episode, 12-hour extravaganza, The American Revolution: A Film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein & David Schmidt, closes with a famous passage written by the esteemed Philadelphia physician, Dr.

Last week, the iconic American documentary filmmaker Ken Burns released his latest series: a six-part, 12-hour film on the American revolution. The film follows dozens of figures from various ...

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to “the voice of God,” the phrase once associated with ...