In his newest PBS series, Ken Burns trains his slow-zooming gaze on the American Revolution and finds a bloody mess led by a deeply flawed commander, fought in guerrilla style by soldiers as young as ...

Burns was the first speaker of the year at the Ringling College of Art and Design’s Town Hall speaker series. Director Rob Reiner, who was killed in December, had been on the schedule for the spring.

Ken Burns, the filmmaker behind documentary classics like "The Civil War" and "Jazz," believes he could walk into nearly any video streaming company and walk away with a check for $30 million. But ...

Known for his contributions to the documentary medium with epic portraits like "The Vietnam War" and "Baseball," Ken Burns ...

A partial view of Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper," preserved at the ex-Renaissance refectory of the convent adjacent to the sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie church, in Milan, Italy ...

Ken Burns attends a discussion of the book "The Small and the Mighty" at 92NY on September 25, 2024 in New York City (Gary Gershoff/Getty Images) With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of ...

“Leonardo da Vinci” is a two-part, four-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon that explores the life and work of the 15th century polymath. Set against the rich and ...

ADVENTURE. ERIKA AND BEN IS THE RIGHT WORD. IF I JUST SAY TWO WORDS, KEN BURNS, YOU IMMEDIATELY KNOW WHERE WE’RE GOING AND WHAT WE’RE ABOUT TO SEE. BUT THESE DAYS, YOU MIGHT WANT TO ADD TWO MORE WORDS ...

LEXINGTON — Anyone who has seen the work of renowned documentarian Ken Burns knows he has a way of bringing history to life. For four decades he has captured the stories of people and places from ...

Keene State has a long-standing relationship with Florentine Films, the production house of Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker known for his American history narratives. The connection between Keene ...

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 ...