Ken Burns’ new PBS series, The American Revolution, reframes the founding war as a brutal, chaotic conflict fought on ...

Director Ken Burns is well known for his often-multipart PBS films about varied segments of the ongoing history of America, ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution reveals the human side of America’s founding in a story both messy and magnificent.

Ken Burns' new "American Revolution" series premieres Nov. 16 on PBS, filmed across 100 locations with storytelling from ...

The six-part miniseries "The Revolutionary War," also helmed by filmmakers Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and written by ...

PBS' six-part, 12-hour documentary lets Burns, Sarah Botstein and David P. Schmidt dive deep into all-too-relevant U.S.

In “The American Revolution,” an illustrated companion to a new documentary series, the conflict is global, gruesome and ...

Amid the nation’s upcoming semiquincentennial celebrations comes a new, 12-hour, six-part series from America’s master of documentary television. Directed by Ken Burns, “The American Revolution” ...

Ken Burns's The American Revolution is making its way on PBS on November 16, 2025. This six part documentary explores America's fight for independence, people and ideas that helped shape a new nation.

I vowed after ‘The Civil War’ not to do any more war films,” says the master documentarian. “It hurt too much.” Lucky for us, he couldn’t keep his promise—paving the way for The American Revolution, ...

A decade before the first shots of the American Revolution, colonists in Boston were brewing with frustration over a new tax from across the Atlantic Ocean. “It's the first time that the British ...