Q&A: In ‘The American Revolution,’ Ken Burns’ filmmakers go back to the beginning

That’s two years longer than the actual length of the American Revolution, but the Founding Fathers and the Continental Army ...
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When Cheyenne Teacher Told Students He’d Have Their Backs For Life, He Meant It

When Cheyenne teacher Eric Crock told his students he'd have their back for life, he meant it. Decades later, students say ...

Ken Burns Breaks Down the Powerful Stories Behind The American Revolution

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

I Watched All 12 Hours of Ken Burns’s Revolutionary War Documentary So You Don’t Have To—Here Are the 12 Most Interesting Things I Learned

In case you don’t have the time to watch the entire 12 hours right now, I’ve got you covered. (Though I highly recommend that ...

‘The Civil War’? ‘Baseball’? Ranking the 10 best Ken Burns documentary series

Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...

Ken Burns’ documentary, ‘The American Revolution,’ shares an origin story that transcends the culture wars

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...
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Ken Burns on his latest documentary. 'The most important event since the birth of Christ.'

There’s no photographs. There’s no news reels. The cast of characters is so spectacularly diverse," Ken Burns said in an ...

Rash: Beyond history, ‘The American Revolution’ is relevant today

“The American Revolution” is the opposite: enduring, not ephemeral. And it accomplishes what Gerbner urges: “To move past a ...

What Ken Burns learned by making ‘The American Revolution’

As he prepares to release his latest series on the Revolutionary War, the filmmaker reflects on the history of the U.S. and his quest for truth.
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Ken Burns and Lin-Manuel Miranda offer history lesson to NYC students at Trinity Church

On a chilly midweek afternoon, hundreds of New York City high school students gathered in the pews of Trinity Church in Lower ...

Ken Burns on ‘The American Revolution,’ Going on Joe Rogan and the Future of Our Country: ‘We Can Get Better’

Ken Burns’ latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against ...
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SIX STRIAGHT NIGHTS of THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new Ken Burns documentary. – Starting Sunday, November 16 at 8 pm

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION  Premieres Sunday, November 16 at 8:00 pm A new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country’s founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, will ...