Laura Linney is among the huge A-list cast, but she’s not playing Giamatti’s wife Abigal Adams this time — Claire Danes is.

The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ...

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is back with a new PBS documentary chronicling how America’s founding reshaped the world.

Ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary, iconic documentarian Ken Burns centers the “world-changing” events of July 4, 1776, ...

The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...

In case you don’t have the time to watch the entire 12 hours right now, I’ve got you covered. (Though I highly recommend that ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns takes a deep dive into the event that led up to the American Revolutionary War, its aftermath ...

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

From Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson to Meryl Streep and Claire Danes, American stars help tell the story of The American ...

There’s no photographs. There’s no news reels. The cast of characters is so spectacularly diverse," Ken Burns said in an interview in Lexington, Mass.

Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz ...