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

Whether you prefer something naughty, like the animated movie “Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer” or nice, like classics ...

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...

Stream now with KPBS+ / Watch Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025 at 6 a.m. + 9 a.m. and 1p.m. + Saturday, Nov. 29 at 9:30 p.m. on ...

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

Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns is back with a new PBS documentary chronicling how America’s founding reshaped the world. Co-directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt, The American ...

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual projects. That’s because he doesn’t really make subpar documentaries, although ...

I think he was alert to the ways that it could end up eroding the institution,” says historian Christopher Brown ...

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 ...

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

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...