Documentarian Ken Burns releases a 12-hour series, 'The American Revolution,' urging Americans to revisit their country's origins. With his work, Burns challenges myths and offers a complex view of ...

Arlington, VA; November 10, 2025 — The Critics Choice Association (CCA) announced the winners of the 10th Annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards (CCDA), celebrating the year’s outstanding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Backstage at a Wayne State University auditorium, Ken Burns opens a can of Vernors and fields a question about Jeff Daniels ...

Lucy Worsley Investigates: The American Revolution will premiere Tuesday, April 7 and 14, 2026, at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS.

Created by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, the documentary “The American Revolution” that recently aired on PBS explores the details of the events that happened in ...

Washington, DC, November 3, 2025 — A MORE PERFECT UNION: INSPIRING CIVIC & CIVIL CONVERSATIONS ACROSS AMERICA, a new one-hour special exploring the themes of liberty, equality, and democracy, will ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cannon in silhouette from the Yorktown Battlefield at Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Va. (PBS) For the first time ...

"From a small spark kindled in America, a flame has arisen. Not to be extinguished." Cultural historian and filmmaker Ken Burns has delighted audiences with in-depth documentaries about American life.

Narrated by frequent Burns collaborator Peter Coyote, “The American Revolution” starts well before that fateful July day in 1776 when the Second Continental Congress formally adopted the Declaration ...

What is most striking about Ken Burns’ extraordinary new PBS documentary on the American Revolution is how alike we are right now to those folks in 1776. Take away the tricorn hats and ruffled shirts ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British ...