An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on the ...

we grasp the war through such hyperbole. In so doing, we tend to blur the fact that real people lived through it and were changed by the event. In all, 185,000 black Americans fought to free their ...

This episode charts the dramatic events that led to Lincoln's decision to free the slaves ... the bloodiest day of the war takes place, followed shortly by the brightest: the emancipation of ...

The Vietnam War directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick ... SBS Originals and more - for free.

Depending on who you were in school, you might have one of several different relationships with Ken ... Burns has played throughout his career has been as a corrector of popular American myths ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns will visit Lexington and Concord on April 17 to discuss his new documentary, "The American Revolution." ...

Working with top historians, Burns and his co-directors cover some surprising territory in their retelling of the American response. (JTA) — One of the first people introduced in Ken Burns ...