"You wake the dead." Ken Burns offered that succinct description of his filmmaking at the Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival on Friday, where the veteran documentarian dug into the craft behind bringing ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When it comes to career accomplishments, America's preeminent documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has plenty to choose from. Whether ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the new six-part, 12-hour series that is currently streaming on PBS (directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt) examines how America’s founding turned the world ...

Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life. In an interview with “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, the filmmaker challenged how the nation ...

Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life. In an interview with "Meet the Press" that aired Sunday, the filmmaker challenged how the nation ...

For the first time ever, PBS made its way into Nielsen’s top 10 streaming list, thanks to Ken Burns’ “The American Revolution” documentary series. As “The American Revolution” aired nightly on PBS ...

The PBS docuseries, co-directed by Sarah Botstein, argues America’s birth was less a unified fight for independence than a brutal, contradictory conflict over power, land and freedom. By Max Gao In ...

As students head back to school, “Ken Burns in the Classroom” content arrives on YouTube, starting with The American ...

The directors of THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, along with special guests, talk about the history of the era, the making of the film, and its relevance today.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said the American Revolution has been “sanitized,” calling the war “dark and bloody.” “I think we have sanitized the war. And I — I think it’s out of an understandable ...