PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

Some of the biggest and best movies of all time take place against the backdrop of history. Here are 15 of the greatest, ...

Every year, thousands of Australians make journeys their great-grandparents could never have imagined - travelling back to ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...

Peter Watkins, who has died the day after his 90th birthday, was a radical and visionary filmmaker who won an Oscar for The War Game, his mock-documentary about the aftermath of a nuclear attack on ...

Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour "The American Revolution," premiering Nov. 16-21 on PBS.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION  Premieres Sunday, November 16 at 8:00 pm A new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, will ...

The 12-hour docuseries highlights nearly 150 characters and 36 battle sequences that range from the well-known, like Bunker ...

Burns' new series focuses on pivotal battles and the historical insights from renowned historians and experts.

Ken Burns, with co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, gives us an in-depth look at the war for independence that also happened to be a civil war.

In a story that transcends and breaks the mold of expectations, Lt. Lee Alley was able to bring peace to his own mind — and ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...