According to the Organization of American Historians, television has become the medium through which most Americans now get their history.

Ken Burns's new documentary on the American Revolution engages in historical revisionism that ignores actual history.

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Academy members will be asked to pick from 201 documentary features, 86 international features and 35 animated features.

One of the things I never wrapped my head around was how the Roman Republic managed to conquer the mighty city-states and ...

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 ...

As America's 250th birthday approaches (with the grim reaper looming large), the distinguished documentarian's 12-hour series on our country's first — and, he argues, ongoing — revolution aims to ...

The documentary aims to look at the Revolution from multiple perspectives, moving beyond common myths. A large cast of actors, including Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, and Morgan Freeman, will voice ...

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 ...

Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, the six-part series premieres on Sunday, Nov. 16. By Rudie Obias If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link ...

As a co-director of “The American Revolution,” the six-part PBS documentary that premieres on Sunday, David Schmidt seems in every sense thoroughly modern. And yet, he said in an interview, “I like to ...

The American Revolution is a new documentary that will premiere for a two-hour episode, In Order to Be Free, on PBS at 8 pm on Sunday, November 16, with 5 subsequent episodes airing on consecutive ...