Ken Burns has been telling the story of America through his entire career with genre-defining documentaries on the Civil War, ...

The 1960s were a time of major protests across the United States. Many people were unhappy with racial discrimination, unfair job practices and the Vietnam War. They used protests as a way to make ...

The final documentary of American Experience before the series pauses new production explores the life and career of the ...

The history lesson went beyond the textbook for some Lexington students. Wednesday marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War. Most students learn about the war in school. But for some ...

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein talked about their new PBS series, "The American Revolution," and related modern lessons that come from the historical era.

Ken Burns, the preeminent documentary filmmaker of his generation, knows how to captivate audiences, whether it's with history or a quip. When he told hundreds of fans at a Wayne State University ...

Wednesday marks 50 years since the “fall of Saigon” and the end of the Vietnam War. This is certainly understandable. While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the political ...

The name of the sitting U.S. president was never uttered during Thursday night’s New York premiere of Ken Burns’s PBS docuseries The American Revolution (nor, for the record, was the name Jimmy Kimmel ...

In his newest PBS series, Ken Burns trains his slow-zooming gaze on the American Revolution and finds a bloody mess led by a deeply flawed commander, fought in guerrilla style by soldiers as young as ...

Well-known documentarian Ken Burns made a stop in Rhode Island Thursday to preview an upcoming documentary series of his that will be airing next month on PBS.