SARASOTA, Fla. ( WWSB) - Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns kicked off Ringling College of Art and Design’s Town Hall Speaker ...

Burns was the first speaker of the year at the Ringling College of Art and Design’s Town Hall speaker series. Director Rob ...

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus the Oklahoma History Center will host a Jan. 24 screening.

The Ken Burns documentary series on the American Revolution that recently aired on PBS is an unsanitized version that they didn’t teach us in school. The fight for independence was one part revolution ...

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary school. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” says director David Schmidt ...

In high school, I was exposed to the conventional wisdom concerning our nation’s founding—Battles of Lexington and Concord, Declaration of Independence, British defeat at Saratoga and Yorktown, and ...

In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The Civil War,” “Baseball” and “Jazz” wasn’t scouting locations or collecting ...

J.B. Lafargue is buried in the Wesley Methodist Church Cemetery in Pineville. In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The ...

"The American Revolution" the latest look at history by Ken Burns. As a young filmmaker, Burns brought his cameras to Old Sturbridge Village. American Antiquarian Society in Worcester: "You don't have ...

Last week, the iconic American documentary filmmaker Ken Burns released his latest series: a six-part, 12-hour film on the American revolution. The film follows dozens of figures from various ...

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player... A decade in the making, Ken Burns’s much-ballyhooed The American Revolution gives the viewer a fair idea of what to expect in its opening ...