Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The American Revolution," a new docuseries by Ken Burns, details America's journey toward freedom and independence during the ...
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 ...
CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — A new documentary series by filmmaker Ken Burns exploring America’s founding and its War for Independence is set to be released in November, but people can catch a sneak peek ...
Spoleto Festival USA announced May 6 that it will offer free live streams of two highly anticipated, sold-out programs ...
Last week, Ken Burns threatened to lock me in a library for twelve hours. In making the film, Burns hoped to avoid romanticizing the conflict. “We’ve encrusted the Revolution with the barnacles of ...
The filmmaker on his new documentary, ‘The American Revolution,’ and why he steers clear of HBO and Netflix.
Artist Emanuel Leutze's famous 1851 painting of Gen. George Washington leading his troops across the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776. Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour ...
Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...
Ken Burns needs no introduction. As the designated documentarian of the American experience - with series about the Civil War, Vietnam, jazz and baseball, among many other topics - Burns is a brand ...
As the United States prepares to mark 250 years since its founding, Ken Burns is urging viewers to revisit that moment anew. The award-winning documentarian – whose work has chronicled everything from ...
On the opening night of the New Orleans Book Festival at Tulane University on March 12, a group of historians and scholars discussed the meaning of the 250th anniversary of America in this fraught ...