Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the ...

While Burns has danced around the Revolution in various projects over the years, for the 250th anniversary of the conflict he and his collaborators decided to take on the entire story in a six ...

For many Americans, the Revolutionary War was the country’s star-spangled origin story, a righteous battle between home-grown patriots and invading British forces, which ended in the triumphant ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns said it's "shortsighted" to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as public media has become a target of the White House.

Burns — whose upcoming film "The American Revolution" is expected to air on PBS on Nov. 16 — also reflected on some of the "complicated stories" in America's short history.

Ken Burns Condemns Republican Plan to Defund PBS: ‘I Couldn’t Do Any of My Films Without Them’ The documentary filmmaker called PBS the “Declaration of Independence applied to the ...

Ken Burns Condemns Republican Plan to Defund PBS: ‘I Couldn’t Do Any of My Films Without Them’ The documentary filmmaker called PBS the "Declaration of Independence applied to the communications world ...

Cuts to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will affect public television and radio stations across the country, particularly rural stations that rely heavily on the federal funding for their ...

"There is nothing more beautiful, moving and hopeful," documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said Friday as he welcomed America's 74 newest citizens at Monticello.

Burns spoke with LAist about how he hopes The American Revolution will unite the country. Why it matters: The documentary arrives as the U.S. marks the 250th anniversary of the Revolution’s start.