Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it.

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction ... taken from a total of 1 million pictures of the Civil War, along ...

Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on the American Revolution. It will air for six consecutive nights and will ...

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

Ken Burns, the award-winning documentary filmmaker known for The Vietnam War, The Civil War, The Dust Bowl and more, is turning his attention away from American subject materials for the first ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns will visit Lexington and Concord on April 17 to discuss his new documentary, "The American Revolution." ...

It was filmmaker Ken Burns who said, “The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places. From Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast.

TODAY — Pictured: Ken Burns on Thursday, February 13, 2020 — (Photo by: Nathan Congleton/NBC/NBCU ... [+] Photo Bank via Getty Images) The American Revolution, a new six-part, 12-hour ...

Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns didn’t plan to pursue a film on Leonardo da Vinci, his first non-American subject. But he was drawn to the subject, thanks in part to the master painter’s ...

Ken Burns’ upcoming six-part series The American Revolution ... is at once devastating and inspiring. It was a bloody civil war that divided families and communities, displaced native nations ...