Laura Linney is among the huge A-list cast, but she’s not playing Giamatti’s wife Abigal Adams this time — Claire Danes is.

From frequent collaborators like Tom Hanks to up-and-comers like Maya Hawke, here's how Ken Burns get Hollywood to voice his ...

From Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson to Meryl Streep and Claire Danes, American stars help tell the story of The American ...

The American Revolution, a new six-part, 12-hour series that explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War ...

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, <i>Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776</i>, depicting the five-man drafting committee of ...

The American Revolution” is rich with detail and vibrant with intellectual filmmaking that seeks to serve as a definitive ...

By Vince Bzdek What is most striking about Ken Burns’ extraordinary new PBS documentary on the American Revolution is how ...

The American Revolution was one of the most radical acts in human history, casting aside centuries of monarchical despotism ...

Le documentariste Ken Burns raconte les États-Unis aux Américains depuis 50 ans. Dans son plus récent opus, il se penche sur ...

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...

Burns' six-part documentary uses voiceover, reenactors and drone footage to tell the story of America's founding. And it ...

Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.