Politics. What Ken Burns' New Film Gets Right—and Wrong—About the Roosevelts In his latest documentary, Ken Burns examines the tangled lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Ken Burns says his new, 14-hour film, "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History," adds personal details about Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, to highlight not only their achievements but ...

Documentary historian Ken Burns pushed back against the idea that political division is increasing in the nation, suggesting ...

Ken Burns' new, 14-hour, seven-night saga, "The Roosevelts: An Intimate History," is an enlightening, engrossing and entertaining chronicle of Theodore, Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt, their ...

Ken Burns is at it again — biting off more than most filmmakers would, or could, dare to chew. For his latest PBS opus, America’s pre-eminent TV historian brings us “The Roosevelts: An ...

"The Roosevelts: An Intimate History" is a 14-hour documentary by Ken Burns focusing on Franklin, Eleanor and Theodore Roosevelt. This film will be shown Sept. 14-20 at 8 p.m. on PBS.

THE ROOSEVELTS had an average rating of 6.1 for all seven episodes (an average audience of 9.2 million P2+), making it the third highest-rated Ken Burns film following THE CIVIL WAR (1990) and ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, right, touches the chair where former President Franklin D. Roosevelt was sitting for a portrait when he died April 12, 1945 in his Georgia home.

The following is the transcript of an interview with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John ...

On Oct. 16, 1901, less than five weeks after the assassination of William McKinley had made Theodore Roosevelt the youngest President in American history, Roosevelt invited the prominent black educ… ...

Ken Burns’s seven-part documentary weaves the stories of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of one of the most prominent and influential families in American politics.

William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, has died ...