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Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual projects. That’s because he doesn’t really make subpar documentaries, although ...

Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...

Ken Burns is back. A storyteller of America for nearly 50 years, the lauded documentary maker has a new series airing on PBS — and yes, it’s another epic. Having made his name in the 1990s with The ...

New Hampshire filmmaker Ken Burns has chronicled some of the most important moments and people in American history – the Vietnam war, Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin and the Civil War to name a few.

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No, he does not want to talk about President Trump. Burns’s 12-hour ...