The documentarian will hold a live talk at Seattle's McCaw Hall on July 14, during which a sneak preview of the documentary ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...

America’s foremost history documentarian is back at a pivotal moment. But is he avoiding the hard truths about the country’s origins?

“Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal is not met with universal approval, the Civil War killed 750,000 Americans, we think, over the issue of slavery. We have our own revolution.

"There is nothing more beautiful, moving and hopeful," documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said Friday as he welcomed America's ...

News anchor John Dickerson spoke with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about his latest film, "The American Revolution," which ...

The other wars that we’ve done, Vietnam and the Second World War and the Civil War, benefited from huge archives of photographs and, later in the 20th century, newsreels.

The following is the transcript of an interview with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John ...

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...

They say the older you get, you either become someone who smokes meat or someone who gets into the Civil War. Well, I feel like I'm more of a WWII guy, but I've been known to dabble in America's ...