Ahead of the PBS production’s premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the ...
In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its timing feels urgent. Critic’s Notebook In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the ...
Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...
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 ...
HANGZHOU, China, Nov. 05, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- An innovative international documentary, When Socrates Met Confucius, is poised for its upcoming debut on Jiangsu Satellite TV and broadcasters in ...