The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...
Victor Davis Hanson blows up "the myth" used by Ken Burns to claim the Founding Fathers got the idea for democracy from the ...
Inside Gaza’ and Al Jazeera Arabic’s ’Gaza: Search for Life’ won prizes for their portrayal of life amid Israel’s genocidal ...
Jacksonville civic leader Bobby Stein has led Better Angels Society while it raised more than $100 million for films by Ken ...
Ken Burns’ 'The American Revolution' focuses on New Jersey locations that defined the 1776 crisis and the army’s reversal at ...
The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ...
In case you don’t have the time to watch the entire 12 hours right now, I’ve got you covered. (Though I highly recommend that ...
“Until the pictures of the slave’s sufferings were drawn up and held up to public gaze, no Northerner had any idea of the cruelty of the system,” abolitionist Angelina Grimké wrote in her famous “ ...
Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...
The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...
From Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson to Meryl Streep and Claire Danes, American stars help tell the story of The American ...
Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.