Brooklyn is getting a silver screen closeup. Documentarian Ric Burns will be at the Brooklyn Historical Society for an evening of documentary films all about the borough’s history and present.

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as ...

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

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as ...

On a chilly midweek afternoon, hundreds of New York City high school students gathered in the pews of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan. The lesson was “Who tells your story?” The teachers, ...

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

While everyone else chases 15 seconds of viral fame, these startups are going long. The payoff? Says one: 'People started to ...

Ken Burns’ 'The American Revolution' focuses on New Jersey locations that defined the 1776 crisis and the army’s reversal at ...

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

With the nation set to celebrate its 250th anniversary next summer, the University of Virginia’s Karsh Institute of Democracy is taking us back to the tumultuous early days, when competing political ...

From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. After screening excerpts of Ken Burns’ documentary “The American ...