New PBS doc produced by Ken Burns features San Antonio scholar

Texas A&M - San Antonio associate professor James Finley also served as a consultant on "Henry David Thoreau." ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praises Arkansans’ support of public broadcasting

Ken Burns, the documentary filmmaker, said Friday he was moved by the support Arkansans showed for the Public Broadcasting ...
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PBS extends Ken Burns' 'The American Revolution' free streaming window through New Year's Eve

PBS has extended Ken Burns' free streaming window for his history docuseries "The American Revolution," following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

Gay White’s passion, insight in PBS fight a revelation

Famed public television documentarian Ken Burns was in northwest Arkansas late last week, and the main thing I got from a ...
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Ken Burns calls PBS the 'Declaration of Independence' for communication, decries its defunding

Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...
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PBS enters Nielsen's streaming top 10 for first time as Ken Burns' 'The American Revolution' logs 565 million minutes

For the first time ever, PBS made its way into Nielsen's top 10 streaming list, thanks to Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" documentary series. As "The American Revolution" aired nightly on PBS ...
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Ken Burns Still Thinks America Is Perfectible

Ken Burns is back. A storyteller of America for nearly 50 years, the lauded documentary maker has a new series airing on PBS — and yes, it’s another epic. Having made his name in the 1990s with The ...