The documentary aims to look at the Revolution from multiple perspectives, moving beyond common myths. A large cast of actors, including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Morgan Freeman, will voice ...

"From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished." Cultural historian and filmmaker Ken Burns has delighted audiences with in-depth documentaries about American life.

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is back with a new PBS documentary chronicling how America’s founding reshaped the world. Co-directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, The American ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and commanders back on muddy 18th-century ground. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and ...

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

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 ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — When the new Ken Burns documentary series “The American Revolution” premiered on PBS, it marked the end of a filmmaking journey that began almost a decade ago. “Ken always says these ...