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

In 1775, the American people rebelled against a tyrant who sent soldiers into the streets of their towns and imposed measures on trade, and taxation, without their consent. In 1776, the Continental ...

The video documents a solo trip to the U.S.–Mexico border, where large groups of migrants are shown crossing in real time. The creator films himself standing alone near active crossing points, ...

Adrian Gillette won third place in a national documentary competition earlier this summer. As part of his prize, he just had ...

Ken Burns’ documentary on the American Revolution has generated much commentary, some supportive and some critical. Across social media, complaints abound that he paid too much, or too little, ...

Countless historians, over the years, have lamented that those who forget or ignore history are condemned to repeat it.

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

Plenty of documentaries have been made about the Second World War, with the best ones including The Memory of Justice, The ...

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary school. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” says director David Schmidt ...

Burns was the first speaker of the year at the Ringling College of Art and Design’s Town Hall speaker series. Director Rob Reiner, who was killed in December, had been on the schedule for the spring.

Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Step behind the scenes of Ken Burns’s new film to see how The American Revolution came to life. Through ...

Takeaways from Ken Burns’ documentary “The American Revolution,” now streaming on PBS: History is not clean and simple. Events do not unfold in a linear and logical fashion that leads to inevitable ...