Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon tell IndieWire about the visual tricks that opened up the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci in their two-part PBS documentary series. Lots of folks trace ...

Ken Burns attends a conversation Dec. 14 with Paula Kerger at The Paley Museum in New York City. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images) PHILADELPHIA — Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns didn’t plan to ...

The two-part, four-hour documentary, “Leonardo da Vinci” will broadcast at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 18, and Tuesday, Nov. 19, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1; the documentary will also be available to ...

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It was less than 20 minutes into Leonardo da Vinci, a new four-hour PBS documentary from Ken Burns and his co-directors Sarah Burns and David McMahon, when I said to myself, “Gee, this guy was a real ...

More than 500 years after his death, the works of Leonardo da Vinci have never been more ubiquitous. “Mona Lisa” just got her own Lego set, and recently played a central role in Rian Johnson’s “Glass ...

The two-part, four-hour PBS documentary is filmmaker Ken Burns’ first project not exploring an American subject. It also features a musical score by Caroline Shaw, another new direction for Burns.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Ken Burns, along with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon (2012's "The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding") have gone back 500 years to produce this ...

Ken Burns and his team typically tackle expansive topics: The Civil War. National Parks. Baseball. Country music. But sometimes he does embrace singular historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson and ...

We have a lot of labels for Leonardo da Vinci but a new documentary seeks to understand him as a person. More than half a millennium after his death, Leonardo da Vinci is still one of the most ...