After a decade of filming for The American Revolution, Ken Burns begins with Ben Franklin and positions Philadelphia at the heart of this story.
Ken Burns says he wants to strip away ‘the barnacles of sentimentality’ around the American Revolution — but his film creates ...
By Vince Bzdek What is most striking about Ken Burns’ extraordinary new PBS documentary on the American Revolution is how ...
The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...
The American Revolution' includes voices often forgotten in retellings of the war. Among them are Quaker poet and a young ...
Ken Burns’ new PBS docuseries The American Revolution is a six-part, 12-hour series that puts troops, camp followers, and ...
Laura Linney is among the huge A-list cast, but she's not playing Giamatti's wife Abigal Adams this time - Claire Danes is.
Ken Burns’s new documentary series on the American Revolution includes history often left out of textbooks: the economic and ...