The Stranger

Ken Burns, America’s Historian, Supports an End to Drug Prohibition

This afternoon, I interviewed Ken Burns—the mastermind documentarian behind the Civil War series, the man who familiarized more Americans with the term “Little Bull Run” and Lincoln’s complicated ...
The New Yorker

If These Streets Could Talk, They’d Sound Like Ken Burns

Attention, dads: Ken Burns was in town recently, scouring SoHo for history. The documentary filmmaker, having made mammoth miniseries on the Civil War, the Roosevelts, Prohibition, the Vietnam War, ...
Wicked Local

Ken Burns on his latest documentary. 'The most important event since the birth of Christ.'

A new six-part documentary series from Ken Burns titled "The American Revolution" is set to premiere on Nov. 16. The film explores the eight-year war, which Burns considers the most consequential ...