When discussing his work and its long conversation with the American story, Ken Burns often shares a version of a quote long attributed to Mark Twain. “History doesn’t repeat itself,” the maxim ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premiered on PBS, it marked the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says these ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Tulsa-based Cherokee filmmaker and film executive played a pivotal part in ensuring that Ken Burns' eagerly awaited docuseries ...

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...

For many Americans, the Revolutionary War was the country’s star-spangled origin story, a righteous battle between home-grown patriots and invading British forces, which ended in the triumphant ...