As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

Documentary historian Ken Burns pushed back against the idea that political division is increasing in the nation, suggesting ...

“The Civil War” was remastered once before, in 2002, when it was released in digital format. But for this edition, Burns’s team at Florentine Films went back to the raw source material.

The Civil War is an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. Between 1861 and 1865, Americans made war on each other and killed each other in great numbers if ...

Ken Burns, the filmmaker known for his award-winning Civil War documentary, was mocked for referring to America's current climate as "the most fraught time" in the history of the Republic.

The following is the transcript of an interview with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John ...

When PBS first showed “The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns” in September 1990, it became a national sensation, ultimately seen by more than 40 million total viewers, the most-watched program in ...

Burns notes that his 11-part documentary series ends with commentary from scholar Barbara Fields, who said, “the Civil War is still going on. It’s still to be fought, and regrettably it can ...

The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

And as much as "The Civil War" changed Ken Burns's life, the remastering process has given Burns the opportunity to really make the film he dreamed of more than 25 years ago.

“The Civil War” is a landmark of American documentary film. Forty million people watched the nine-part series when it first aired on PBS in 1990, and their enthusiasm helped spark a Civil War ...