The wars fought in America's history all feature a cause. For movies focusing on the Civil War, soldiers fight out of loyalty to the Union or the Confederacy; for movies focusing on the World Wars, ...

Three experts discuss their behind-the-scenes experience as historical advisers to the new series.

A new six-part documentary series from Ken Burns titled "The American Revolution" is set to premiere on Nov. 16. The film explores the eight-year war, which Burns considers the most consequential ...

Six months away from its 250th year, the United States of America is still in its infancy. It is an empire forever moving and shifting, trying to decide what it will be. Prolific documentarian Ken ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns takes a deep dive into the event that led up to the American Revolutionary War, its aftermath and the birth of a nation in this six-part docuseries, “The American ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British colonies on the Atlantic Coast rose in rebellion, won their independence, and established a new ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt examines how America’s founding turned the world upside-down. Thirteen British ...

From Silent-Era Myths to Prestige TV, Here’s How America’s Founding Conflict Has Been Portrayed on Screen “The big ideas of the Revolution aren’t diminished by telling the truth. They’re made stronger ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on multiple fronts and driven by impossible odds. From fractured command to ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

The American Revolution will be a war that will pit brother against brother – and birth a nation. The American Revolution will become not just a local war for independence, but a war between great ...