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America’s foremost history documentarian is back at a pivotal moment. But is he avoiding the hard truths about the country’s ...
The Blood and the Beauty,” the ambitious, three-episode account of Italy’s artistic apogee and three monumental figures in ...
Ken Burns told Axios that his forthcoming six-part series — "The American Revolution" — has been in the works since December 2015 and required "years and years and years" of filming war reenactors ...
The government can — and should — continue to play a vital role in sustaining a media ecosystem that serves all Americans.
PBS is the "Declaration of Independence applied to broadcasting," documentarian Ken Burns told Anderson Cooper on "AC360" Friday night. Burns joined Cooper to explain the necessity and function of ...
Aptly titled Leonardo Da Vinci, the four-hour documentary is going to play over two nights — Monday, November 18 and Tuesday, November 19, from 8-10 pm ET/PT on PBS, as well as be available on ...
“Hamilton,” which debuted on Broadway a decade ago, has become a cultural touchstone, winning the Pulitzer Prize, a Grammy ...
On March 12, 2025, PBS LearningMedia, PBS’s online destination for PreK-12 teachers and students, will join filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein, and iCivics at a virtual event for Civic ...
Ken Burns, the filmmaker behind documentary classics like "The Civil War" and "Jazz," believes he could walk into nearly any video streaming company and walk away with a check for $30 million. But ...
With Ken Burns and Sarah Burns, he wrote, directed and produced The Central Park Five, a two-hour film about the five teenagers who were wrongly convicted in the Central Park Jogger case of 1989 ...