Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life.

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus the Oklahoma History Center will ...

Burns' anticipated six-part docuseries "The American Revolution" premieres at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16 nationwide on PBS, ...

Backstage at a Wayne State University auditorium, Ken Burns opens a can of Vernors and fields a question about Jeff Daniels providing the voice of Thomas Jefferson in “The American Revolution.” Why ...

Washington, DC, December 22, 2025 – PBS today announced that given the demand for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the new six-part, 12-hour documentary series directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David ...

"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.

Pulitzer Prize–winning author Rick Atkinson, featured in Ken Burns’ PBS documentary The American Revolution, is coming to ...

Artist Emanuel Leutze's famous 1851 painting of Gen. George Washington leading his troops across the Delaware River on Christmas night 1776. Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour ...

Ken Burns and I have just met at Bowling Green, the tiny park at the bottom tip of Manhattan, when he brings up “all the lives that have been through here.” He doesn’t mean the tourists lined up to ...

Saying that the most patriotic act you can commit this month is to watch director Ken Burns' six-part, 12-hour "The American Revolution" is a little like saying you have to eat your vegetables. But ...