WALPOLE, N.H. -- When Ken Burns' "Civil War" hit public television in 1990, it was a revelation: Burns invested a faded period of American history with new life, color and emotion. The public does not ...

In 1990, a fresh-faced documentarian managed to do the impossible. Over the course of nine September nights on PBS, Ken Burns got millions of Americans excited about their own history with his series ...

Ken Burns has been telling the story of America through his entire career with genre-defining documentaries on the Civil War, the Vietnam War, and now the American Revolution. This week, Ben and Max ...

The fight for independence was one part revolution, one part civil war, with brutalities on both sides. That was one takeaway. George Washington was not all that hot of a military strategist, but he ...

That's a phrase that has been bandied about lately with the controversy over displaying the Confederate battle flag. Now viewers can experience again Ken Burns' seminal documentary that covered the ...

Julie A. Dunfey began her association with Ken Burns and Florentine Films in 1986 as a co-producer of The Civil War and Thomas Hart Benton. Thomas Hart Benton, which was broadcast in 1989, received a ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is on the war path again. He’s already created memorable series on the Vietnam War, the Civil War and World War II. Now he’s tracking the mother of those wars, the war ...

In his latest series, Ken Burns, veteran of renowned documentaries on the Civil and Vietnam wars, tells the story of the ordinary men and women who took on the mighty British Empire to found a new ...

Ken Burns' PBS documentary "The American Revolution" represents the best of filmmaking and a vital examination of the nation's founding.