Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life.

Filmmaker Ken Burns joins Kristen Welker in a “Meet the Moment” conversation to dissect America's origin story and argues democracy was an “unintended consequence” of the American Revolution.

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Burns contends that democracy was an unintended consequence of a revolution primarily aimed at benefiting white male property owners. He emphasizes the diverse composition of the Continental Army, ...

Ken Burns says his latest epic documentary shows America has been deeply divided since its earliest days, but that the story of the revolution, and the war itself, could “put the ‘us’ back in the U.S.

Six months away from its 250th year, the United States of America is still in its infancy. It is an empire forever moving and shifting, trying to decide what it will be. Prolific documentarian Ken ...

To dispel the idea that the American Revolution refers only to a war, we're going to start our look at Ken Burns' latest epic, "The American Revolution," at the end, after the war is won. In a 1787 ...

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

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...