Among the 25 films selected by the Library of Congress to be preserved for future generations are "The Big Chill," Wes ...

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As this country sits on the precipice of its semiquincentennial, which will be celebrated from coast to coast on July 4, now ...

Ramtin talks with filmmaker Ken Burns about the revolution that made the U.S., and the surprising lessons he thinks it holds ...

EXCLUSIVE: More than 30 years after starring in New Line’s big-budget Civil War movie Gettysburg, Stephen Lang is returning ...

Two paintings by Oklahoma artist Mike Wimmer are featured in Ken Burns' new PBS docuseries, "The American Revolution." The documentary series explores the founding of America and features voice work ...

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary school. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” says director David Schmidt ...

Charleston means a lot to me in a visceral way, and it continues to play an important role in my films and in my imagination. The first time I visited was in the late 1980s when I was working on my ...

J.B. Lafargue is buried in the Wesley Methodist Church Cemetery in Pineville. In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The ...

In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The Civil War,” “Baseball” and “Jazz” wasn’t scouting locations or collecting ...