Like every great Ken Burns documentary, the letters and writings of the people involved are an important part of telling the ...

Laura Linney is among the huge A-list cast, but she's not playing Giamatti's wife Abigal Adams this time - Claire Danes is.

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, <i>Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776</i>, depicting the five-man drafting committee of ...

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...

The six-part documentary examines the War for Independence and will air nightly through November 21. Watch it for free.

The historical documentary master is at the top of his game in this thrillingly timely history lesson about democracy.

The American Revolution, a new six-part, 12-hour series that explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns takes a deep dive into the event that led up to the American Revolutionary War, its aftermath ...

Ken Burns’s new documentary series on the American Revolution includes history often left out of textbooks: the economic and ...

On a chilly midweek afternoon, hundreds of New York City high school students gathered in the pews of Trinity Church in Lower ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...