Before he became the first U.S. president, George Washington helped ignite a global war. The French and Indian War saw empires battling for supremacy in the Americas, with Native nations caught in ...

The historical documentary master is at the top of his game in this thrillingly timely history lesson about democracy.

Ken Burns' new six-episode docuseries 'The American Revolution' looks at the attitude George Washington had toward allowing ...

The PBS documentary tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than estranging it further ...

The epic story, with Boston as an epicenter, premieres Nov. 16 on PBS. The post ‘New England is at the center of it’: Ken ...

The 12-hour, six-part PBS docuseries, which premieres Sunday, Nov. 16, shows how our democracy was built, brick by brick.

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against ...

The acclaimed filmmaker’s PBS documentary is a captivating look at the fear, risk and courage that forged a country ...

Hundreds of New York City high school students gathered at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan for a lesson led by filmmaker ...

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

Ahead of the PBS production's premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their ...

Ken Burns spent a decade creating his documentary series about "The American Revolution." It couldn't have come at a more ...