Ken Burns Still Thinks America Is Perfectible

The American Revolution filmmaker talks about the hypocrisies of US history and what’s missing from our political lives today ...
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Revolutionary War Was A Civil War Too, Says Ken Burns

The introductory narrative of "The American Revolution" takes up a style Burns established at the outset of "The Civil War." ...
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Ken Burns says current times 'equal' to Civil War, Depression and WWII

LOS ANGELES - Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recently compared current issues to "three great crises" of the past in America: the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. Burns, an ...

'With his series 'The American Revolution,' director Ken Burns warns against the tendency to judge the heroes of the past through the lens of the present'

COLUMN. In a spectacular documentary, the filmmaker advocates for a nuanced and diverse understanding of the history of the American War of Independence against the British Crown – a perspective that ...

What Ken Burns wants you to know about 'The American Revolution' will shock you

Ken Burns spent a decade creating his documentary series about "The American Revolution." It couldn't have come at a more ...

New Ken Burns series features Indigenous nations' role in American Revolution

Ken Burns’s new documentary series on the American Revolution includes history often left out of textbooks: the economic and ...