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 ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written generations ago amid a violent conflict. It could only be documentary filmmaker ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...

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 ...