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

In a real-world example of the butterfly effect, over two dozen European countries are having to tweak their clocks to make ...

Wonderful story about Ken Burns and his amazing story-telling talent (“Ken Burns Believes the American Revolution Belongs to All of Us,” November 9). I have watched almost all of his films and each ...

In a recent interview, Ken Burns said that the American Revolution was the most important human event since the birth of Christ. While historians (and theologians) may debate this claim, what cannot ...

Ken Burns agreed to let Apple use his photo panning style in iMovie for $1 million worth of equipment. Steve Jobs proposed naming the Mac feature after Burns' filmmaking technique, and he initially ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. While watching the Ken Burns production “The American Revolution,” a salient ...

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 ...

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 ...

Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...

It was the American Revolution, “more than any other single event,” the famed historian Gordon Wood once observed, “that made America into the most liberal, democratic and modern nation in the world.” ...