Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Wednesday marks 50 years since the “fall of Saigon” and the end of the Vietnam War. This is certainly understandable. While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the political ...

For the documentary filmmaker, SoHo isn’t about galleries or boutiques. With his new PBS series, “The American Revolution,” ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...

HANOVER, N.H. -- Filmmaker Ken Burns views the Vietnam War as a virus that infected Americans with an array of chronic illnesses -- alienation, a lack of civil discourse, mistrust of government and ...

People like to say that history repeats itself, but Ken Burns isn’t buying it. “Every event is new and unique,” documentarian Burns says. “What doesn’t change is human nature. Human nature stays the ...

The last in the series. I’m not sure whether this qualifies as a scoop or not, but I don’t believe I’ve seen Burns say that he plans to make a Vietnam documentary elsewhere (not that I’ve scoured all ...

The Vietnam veterans and other former Special Forces soldiers who meet every Friday at Mike Johnson’s accounting office on Perkins Road plan to watch the 10-part PBS documentary, “The Vietnam War,” ...

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 ...

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. Wednesday marks 50 years since the ...