American musical icon Johnny Cash was at a career highpoint and in the middle of a successful tour of Scandinavia in 1971, ...

Ramtin talks with filmmaker Ken Burns about the revolution that made the U.S., and the surprising lessons he thinks it holds ...

BETTENDORF, Iowa — A Bettendorf middle school student who earned national recognition for a documentary on school book bans has now received guidance from one of the most renowned documentary ...

Charleston means a lot to me in a visceral way, and it continues to play an important role in my films and in my imagination. The first time I visited was in the late 1980s when I was working on my ...

In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The Civil War,” “Baseball” and “Jazz” wasn’t scouting locations or collecting ...

J.B. Lafargue is buried in the Wesley Methodist Church Cemetery in Pineville. In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The ...

"The American Revolution" the latest look at history by Ken Burns. As a young filmmaker, Burns brought his cameras to Old Sturbridge Village. American Antiquarian Society in Worcester: "You don't have ...

Last week, the iconic American documentary filmmaker Ken Burns released his latest series: a six-part, 12-hour film on the American revolution. The film follows dozens of figures from various ...

In a recent interview, Ken Burns said that the American Revolution was the most important human event since the birth of Christ. While historians (and theologians) may debate this claim, what cannot ...

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to "the voice of God," the phrase once associated with ...

Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...

BEVERLY — Thirty-one oil paintings in Historic Beverly’s collection were shown in filmmaker Ken Burn’s new documentary “The American Revolution” — making them the most-featured single collection of ...