The North Country’s local PBS stations will host sneak previews of a long-anticipated documentary series this week. Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” is a six-part, 12-hour series that's a decade ...

Step forward Ken Burns, king of US documentary making. His prolific catalogue — whose subjects range from baseball to the ...

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus the Oklahoma History Center will ...

Backstage at a Wayne State University auditorium, Ken Burns opens a can of Vernors and fields a question about Jeff Daniels providing the voice of Thomas Jefferson in “The American Revolution.” Why ...

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

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 ...

Congress is moving toward revoking a billion dollars in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that steers funds to public media stations. William Brangham ...

Ken Burns, one of the most critically acclaimed documentary filmmakers of the modern age, says the current threats to defund public media are likely the most existential the system has ever seen. “I ...

Country Music (8 p.m. and 10 p.m., PBS / UNC-TV) - Documentary filmmaking master Ken Burns does it again, this time providing a definitive eight-part, 16-hour chronicle of the history of country music ...

Saying that the most patriotic act you can commit this month is to watch director Ken Burns' six-part, 12-hour "The American Revolution" is a little like saying you have to eat your vegetables. But ...