Ken Burns says he wants to strip away ‘the barnacles of sentimentality’ around the American Revolution — but his film creates ...

The six-part documentary examines the War for Independence and will air nightly through November 21. Watch it for free.

When Martin enlisted in the Connecticut militia in 1776, the teen was too young to vote but old enough to die. Over the next seven years, he’d experience nearly every major battle and hardship of the ...

Eisenhower Fellowships Chairman, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert M. Gates, will present the prestigious medal to Burns at EF's Annual Awards Dinner on May 13, 2026 at the National ...

The acclaimed filmmaker’s PBS documentary is a captivating look at the fear, risk and courage that forged a country ...

Over a decade after her Academy Award-winning portrayal of a troubled young woman in “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012), ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his reluctant body from bed before dawn to film reenactors at Old Sturbridge ...

“I’m a storyteller. I’m a filmmaker. I’m not a historian,” Ken Burns says shortly before the release of his 10-years-in-the-making behemoth, The American Revolution. Few would argue the first two ...

Co-anchor, "CBS Evening News;" Chief political analyst and senior national correspondent; Contributo Award-winning journalist and author John Dickerson is co-anchor of the" CBS Evening News" and chief ...

When the first "A Nightmare on Elm Street" film was released in 1984, nobody quite knew what the impact would be. That is certainly true for series star Robert Englund, who took on the role of Freddy ...