This is “woke”? Nothing in the series struck me as virtue signaling. In fact, the opposite: The documentary scans a ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

Lance Armstrong has narrated a new documentary on the history of the legendary American company, Schwinn Bicycles. The ...

A new documentary, "The Best of the Best: Jazz from Detroit," will premiere on Prime Video on Dec. 9. The film is based on ...

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

Chances are fair that you’ve heard about this new American Revolution documentary series that has announced itself like Paul Revere’s midnight ride. You might have even ingested a think piece or two ...

It begins with a reminder from longtime Burns collaborator and narrator Peter Coyote that long before 13 British colonies made themselves into the United States, the six nations of the Iroquois ...

The American Revolution, a new 6-part film from Ken Burns, premieres on WTTW on Sunday, November 16 through Friday, November 21 at 7:00 pm. This sweeping documentary explores how 13 colonies rose ...

Ahead of the PBS production’s premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the ...

Sara Joe Wolansky left her job as a video producer at The New Yorker in 2022 to pursue a feature documentary career. After a few months of reflection, Wolansky decided to make a film about a topic ...

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 ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...