The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...

That manner of activation of a still image, now widely known as the Ken Burns Effect (thanks partly to Apple iMovie, where it ...

Trib Total Media TV writer Rob Owen offers a viewing tip for the coming month. PBS may be worse for wear following federal defunding, but public TV documentarian Ken Burns remains at work with ...

This story was featured in The Must Read, a newsletter in which our editors recommend one can’t-miss story every weekday. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. On the Fourth of July—a day that Ken ...

With the nation set to celebrate its 250th anniversary next summer, the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy is taking us back to the tumultuous early days, when competing political ...

On the Fourth of July—a day that Ken Burns unsurprisingly refers to as “by far, by far, my favorite holiday”—I accompanied the legendary documentary filmmaker to a naturalization ceremony on the West ...

We want The Atlantic to be the greatest writer’s collective on the planet,” the magazine’s editor-in-chief said ...

Even by his standards, Ken Burns has assembled a very impressive voice cast for his six-part documentary “The American Revolution.” It starts airing on GBH 2 and streaming on PBS.com Nov. 16. Burns ...

Ken Burns joins David Frum to discuss how his new documentary captures both the triumphs and the tragedies of the nation’s founding. Plus: Donald Trump’s TikTok giveaway and Benjamin Nathans’s To the ...

New fiction by Salman Rushdie and Bryan Washington, a memoir by Margaret Atwood, devilish romantasy and more. Credit...The ...

An untold number of albums have been released since the long-playing record came into being amid the technological and ...