The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

LOS ANGELES - Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recently compared current issues to "three great crises" of the past in America: the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. Burns, an ...

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Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

In mentioning Ken Burns' upcoming The American Revolution to casual observers, the most frequent response has been a variation on: "Wait. Hasn't he done that already?" The short answer is "No." The ...

“Gray zone warfare” refers to a blurry middle space between kinetic conflict and peace. It can involve cyber fights, ...

In his newest PBS series, Ken Burns trains his slow-zooming gaze on the American Revolution and finds a bloody mess led by a deeply flawed commander, fought in guerrilla style by soldiers as young as ...

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

"As I was revising my little book on the Battle of Bennington earlier this year, I wondered how Burns and Atkinson would ...

America is on fire both literally and metaphorically in the new trailer for Alex Garland's bleak dystopian thriller Civil War. The director's latest collaboration with A24 following 2022's Men ...