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

By Zach HagadoneReader Staff There’s never a bad time to explore and consider the origin story of the United States, but now ...

For the past decade, filmmaker Ken Burns and his team have been delving deep into history to put together this six-part ...

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

With co-directors David Schmidt and Sarah Botstein, he tells America’s origin story in his new film, “ The American ...

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 ...

Ken Burns' latest docuseries, "The American Revolution," explores the United States' bloody and hardwon origin story.

"The American Revolution" is a sweeping, six-part PBS docuseries that feels like a confrontation of how America's founding ideals were born ...

Back in 1990, Ken Burns made his reputation with "The Civil War," a sprawling, mutlipart documentary that caused a sensation, set a standard and sealed the style he's applied to ...

Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.

The United States came out of violence,” the historian Maya Jasanoff reminds us in our series “The American Revolution” ...