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

Burns' anticipated six-part docuseries "The American Revolution" premieres at 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 16 nationwide on PBS, ...

Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and ...

The historical documentary master is at the top of his game in this thrillingly timely history lesson about democracy.

Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz ...

In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

Ken Burns, with co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, gives us an in-depth look at the war for independence that ...

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Saturday, Nov. 22, 2025 at 11 a.m. on KPBS 2. The film looks at the evolution of horses in ...

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against ...

That’s all good food for thought as you watch “The American Revolution,” the six-part, 12-hour Ken Burns behemoth. But here’s ...