Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.

The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ...

Ken Burns, with co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, gives us an in-depth look at the war for independence that ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...

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

The cast is extensive with over 60 voice actors appearing, including Hollywood celebrities Morgan Freeman, Meryl Streep, Tom ...

The American Revolution is a six-part, twelve-hour PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein that explores America's ...

Ken Burns’ latest documentary is his first one exploring a non-American subject, telling the story of the live and ...

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 ...

Late Wednesday evening, under the cover of holiday cheer, Jennifer Lawrence admitted to the world, "Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine." Of course, she was only repeating the now infamous press ...

The white Goudy letters against a black background. The melancholic violin melody. The Peter Coyote narration. The slow panning over old photographs to give them a sense of movement. Ken Burns is such ...

A partial view of Leonardo da Vinci's painting "The Last Supper," preserved at the ex-Renaissance refectory of the convent adjacent to the sanctuary of Santa Maria delle Grazie church, in Milan, Italy ...