Filmmaker Ken Burns said it's "shortsighted" to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as public ...

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...

The documentarian will hold a live talk at Seattle's McCaw Hall on July 14, during which a sneak preview of the documentary ...

With "The American Buffalo," Ken Burns connects an icon of the natural world to our nation's history A four-hour series examining the fall and recuperation of the bison makes us ask: Why are ...

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns stops by TODAY to discuss his new documentary, “Leonardo da Vinci,” his first film that covers a non-American topic, and chronicles the life and work of the ...

Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" is an examination of the past and a critique of the present. It premieres in November on PBS.

Ken Burns is famous for documenting battles. Now he’s joined one. Lure Fishbar has been a staple in New York’s Soho neighborhood for 20 years, and local Burns is campaigning to save it from ...

But Ken initially refused the mere suggestion of a documentary on da Vinci, first brought to him by historian and biographer Walter Isaacson, on the grounds that it simply wasn't his area of focus.

Ken Burns: That’s where the real drama of extinction took place. By the time that the American nation was beginning to move west, the buffalo’s range had shrunk to basically the Plains.

The award-winning filmmaker has slept in the same bedroom for over four decades. He credits his home with allowing him to make the films everyone said he couldn’t.

Documentarian Ken Burns is heading to Boston in April Burns will be in Massachusetts to discuss his forthcoming documentary on the American Revolution Burns is a New ...

The battle over who has the right to tell which stories has intensified in the wake of the world's recent racial reckoning and is pitting well-known documentary filmmakers against each other ...