Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

Burns' new PBS docuseries features a star-studded voice cast, including Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep. The post The most famous ...

Here’s a look at the actors who brought The American Revolution to life: Peter Coyote is the narrator. He speaks throughout the whole series. The documentary has almost 200 voices of real people from ...

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it reminds viewers that the quest for a more perfect union is far from over.

COLUMN. In a spectacular documentary, the filmmaker advocates for a nuanced and diverse understanding of the history of the ...

Take a deep dive into the American Revolution. Learn more about the new documentary from Ken Burns, GBH's America 250 collection, and other storiest that will further your knowledge about our nation's ...

The DAR awards more than 30 scholarships annually, totaling close to $250,000, to students across the country, but the ...

Thirty-one oil paintings in Historic Beverly’s collection were shown in filmmaker Ken Burn’s new documentary “The American ...

Running Friday through Sunday, Dec. 5-7, the Noble Train Begins celebration, marks the anniversary of Henry Knox’s 1775 expedition to transport nearly 60 tons of artillery from Fort Ticonderoga to ...

Ken Burns spent a decade creating his documentary series about "The American Revolution." It couldn't have come at a more pressing time.

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), ...

A battle lasting less than an hour south of Norfolk in December 1775 between British forces and colonial militia was a turning point that led to the departure of Virginia’s last royal governor.