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The War Between, the gripping Civil War drama from director Deborah Correa, will be available on VOD beginning November 25, ...

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

Bullet holes from 250 years ago are still visible today at the House in the Horseshoe State Historic Site. They were left ...

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

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 ...

“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...

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

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 ...

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.