From Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson to Meryl Streep and Claire Danes, American stars help tell the story of The American ...

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...

Victor Davis Hanson blows up "the myth" used by Ken Burns to claim the Founding Fathers got the idea for democracy from the ...

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

The new Ken Burns documentary "The American Revolution" premieres Nov. 16 on PBS (check local listings). Celebrities including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep and Ethan Hawke voice historical figures in the ...

The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...

“War does not determine who is right—only who is left,” someone once said. War reshapes lives, leaving stories of courage, loss, and survival. Filmmakers have made countless great war movies — but ...

A search for the remains of Black Union soldiers murdered toward the end of the Civil War. Originally a supply depot for Union forces in Kentucky, Camp Nelson became the site where 10,000 Black ...

The six-part documentary examines the War for Independence and will air nightly through November 21. Watch it for free.