PHILADELPHIA – After capturing hundreds of hours of footage, over a decade, for his new docuseries “The American Revolution,” filmmaker Ken Burns knew the epic story had to begin with Benjamin ...

The main characters in Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" aren't exactly strangers. The new PBS docuseries, which premiered Sunday, spends ample time with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and so ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

A brief look back at the Battle of Bunker Hill from Ken Burns looks ahead to his upcoming six-part documentary Ken Burns’s latest documentary series, “The American Revolution,” doesn’t start airing ...

For many Americans, the Revolutionary War was the country’s star-spangled origin story, a righteous battle between home-grown patriots and invading British forces, which ended in the triumphant ...

Several years ago, David Schmidt returned to his hometown to film sequences for Ken Burns’ documentary “The American Revolution,” believing “where else would you find a better place (than Williamsburg ...

Thirty-five years ago, I stood with filmmaker Ken Burns at what was then called the Chicago Historical Society (now the Chicago History Museum). He was telling me some advice that Southern novelist ...