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

Like every great Ken Burns documentary, the letters and writings of the people involved are an important part of telling the ...

John Adams, once virulently anti-tavern, effusively extolled the Philly bar scene in letters to his wife, Abigail. At one ...

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns joins Morning Joe to discuss the new PBS documentary series 'The American Revolution' and ...

That’s two years longer than the actual length of the American Revolution, but the Founding Fathers and the Continental Army ...

“The American Revolution” is the opposite: enduring, not ephemeral. And it accomplishes what Gerbner urges: “To move past a ...

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

Revolution” is a singular achievement, offering new perspectives and insights on the uprising against British rule that ...

Ahead of the country’s 250th anniversary, iconic documentarian Ken Burns centers the “world-changing” events of July 4, 1776, ...

The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...

Here’s a look at the actors who brought The American Revolution to life: Peter Coyote is the narrator. He speaks throughout ...

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