To watch the fifth episode of Ken Burns' "Baseball" is to see exactly what makes the sport great as a metaphor for the country.

If viewers are caught humming any tune after watching Ken Burns's Baseball, chances are that it will be "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." The 1908 vaudeville classic is heard in dozens of versions ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...