The PBS docuseries, co-directed by Sarah Botstein, argues America’s birth was less a unified fight for independence than a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Documentarian Ken Burns put his "longstanding attempt at neutrality" aside to issue a stern warning about presumed Republican ...

The drafters of the U.S. Constitution "would be abjectly disappointed" by the state of the United States in 2026, Ken Burns told "Meet the Press" host Kristen Welker on Sunday — especially since the ...

Burns told Hal Kushner: ‘You’re like a dog with a bone" ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JOHN DICKERSON: So Ken, let's imagine it's July 3, 1776, what is happening in America? KEN BURNS: Well, this house is empty.

The two-parter explores the life and legacy of the 'Mona Lisa' artist and boundary-breaking polymath, with insights from scholars, experts and enthusiasts including filmmaker Guillermo del Toro. By ...

The celebrated filmmaker screened an episode from his new documentary and spoke about the episode in a subsequent conversation about the American Revolution and the United States’s 250th anniversary.

Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein “didn’t realize for a long time” that the release of their upcoming six-episode series on the American Revolution would line up with the 250th ...

Back in 2015, documentarian Ken Burns was still working on his Vietnam War series when he decided the next project would be on the American Revolution. Soon, ten years after Burns first felt that ...

Washington, DC – March 10, 2025 – On March 12, 2025, PBS LearningMedia, PBS’s online destination for PreK-12 teachers and students, will join filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein, and iCivics at a ...

It’s a total coincidence that Ken Burns, David Schmidt and Sarah Botstein’s six-part documentary series “The American Revolution” was released by PBS in November 2025, less than a year ahead of the ...

Ever since he got a movie camera for his 17th birthday, Ken Burns has been making documentaries. Over the years, he's created 36 documentary series for PBS, all of them about American history, from ...