Famed documentarian Ken Burns visited Portland this week to show excerpts from the upcoming documentary series, "The American ...

Congress is moving toward revoking a billion dollars in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ...

Congress is moving toward revoking a billion dollars in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

Ken Burns: 150 years after Civil War, America is not post-racial 03:00. Burns said the central theme of his work is freedom, including the tensions of individual freedom versus collective freedom ...

Ken Burns' The Civil War. Clip | 30s. The Civil War is a nine-part series that explores the most important conflict in our nation’s history.

The last shot of the Civil War was fired sometime in June of 1865, some two months after the Confederate surrender at Appomattox. The battles may have ended, but the underlying causes – racism ...

As the country marks the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination and the end of the Civil War, PBS announced today that THE CIVIL WAR, the award-winning film produced and directed ...

NEW YORK (AP) — From the time it aired nearly 30 years ago, Ken Burns’ Civil War documentary has been a popular sensation and subject of debate. The 11-hour, nine-part series premiered in ...

Ken Burns, the filmmaker known for his award-winning Civil War documentary, was mocked for referring to America's current climate as "the most fraught time" in the history of the Republic.

"The Civil War" is being remastered 25 years after its initial release now that audiences expect higher quality video. Filmmaker Ken Burns and restoration producer Daniel J. White detail the ...

Ken Burns dives into the boundless curiosity at the core of Leonardo da Vinci's exploits in new PBS documentary.