Ken Burns' ‘The American Revolution' Is a Vast Account of Our Country's Origin Story: TV Review

Six months away from its 250th year, the United States of America is still in its infancy. It is an empire forever moving and ...

Stream It Or Skip It: ‘The American Revolution’ On PBS, A Ken Burns Docuseries Takes A Deep Dive Into The U.S.’s Fight For Independence

T he American Revolution on PBS, directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, written by Geoffrey C. Ward and narrated by Peter Coyote, is a six-part docuseries about the events leading up ...

Tell Students the Truth About American History

This duality made intuitive sense to the students. They understood that their country and its heroes, like all of us, aren’t ...

Ken Burns pulls out the stops for ‘The American Revolution’

Revolution” is a singular achievement, offering new perspectives and insights on the uprising against British rule that ...

‘The American Revolution’ Review: Ken Burns’ Sluggish but Poignant PBS Docuseries Charts the Fight for Independence

"The American Revolution" is a sweeping, six-part PBS docuseries that feels like a confrontation of how America's founding ideals were born ...
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Ken Burns on his latest documentary. 'The most important event since the birth of Christ.'

There’s no photographs. There’s no news reels. The cast of characters is so spectacularly diverse," Ken Burns said in an ...

‘The American Revolution’ Review: In Divided Times, Ken Burns Trumpets a Unifying Dictum: No Kings

Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.