How Ken Burns, David Schmidt and Sarah Botstein’s ‘The American Revolution’ Documentary Lends a Voice to the Underrepresented and Took 10 Years to Make

It’s a total coincidence that Ken Burns, David Schmidt and Sarah Botstein’s six-part documentary series “The American Revolution” was released by PBS in November 2025, less than a year ahead of the ...

Here's what famous documentarian Ken Burns had to say at a sold-out Spoleto conversation

Legendary filmmaker Ken Burns took the stage at the Sottile Theatre in downtown Charleston on May 27 for a sold-out Spoleto ...
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'American Revolution' is a new Ken Burns documentary. Here's how and when to watch it

The documentary aims to look at the Revolution from multiple perspectives, moving beyond common myths. A large cast of actors, including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Morgan Freeman, will voice ...
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Ken Burns’ newest documentary, The American Revolution, debuts Sunday

The American Revolution is a new documentary that will premiere for a two-hour episode, In Order to Be Free, on PBS at 8 pm on Sunday, November 16, with 5 subsequent episodes airing on consecutive ...

‘An Evening with Ken Burns’ to simulcast at Charleston Visitor Center

A sold-out appearance by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns at Spoleto Festival USA has prompted organizers to add a free ...
Chicago Tribune

Column: Ken Burns documentary explores the blood, courage and hope of ‘The American Revolution’

Thirty-five years ago, I stood with filmmaker Ken Burns at what was then called the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum). He was telling me some advice that Southern novelist ...
Los Angeles Times

Inspired by mother’s death, Ken Burns to make cancer documentary

After producing documentaries about the history of baseball, the Civil War, jazz and a variety of other topics, Ken Burns is turning his attention to cancer. Burns will be teaming up with Dr.
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Ken Burns’ documentary talk at Crystal Bridges sold out

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — A talk featuring documentary filmmaker Ken Burns at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has sold out more than two months ahead of the event. “Building Bridges: An ...
The Boston Globe

‘Human nature doesn’t change.’ Ken Burns on what we learn from the American Revolution.

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his reluctant body from bed before dawn to film reenactors at Old Sturbridge ...
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praises Arkansans’ support of public broadcasting

BENTONVILLE -- Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker, said Friday he was moved by the support Arkansans showed for the Public Broadcasting Service when the Arkansas Educational Television Commission ...