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

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

"There is nothing more beautiful, moving and hopeful," documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said Friday as he welcomed America's ...

Documentary historian Ken Burns contended that major events and legislative efforts throughout U.S. history have always experienced a level a pushback.

News anchor John Dickerson spoke with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns about his latest film, "The American Revolution," which ...

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...

MY INBOX RUNNETH OVER: On July 4, I asked who you’d put on an imaginary “new” Mount Rushmore. I heard from a few hundred ...

That striking contrast -- and what followed -- is detailed in "The American Buffalo," a four-hour Public Broadcasting Service documentary by noted filmmaker Ken Burns airing in two parts Monday ...

PBS is also making every Thursday History Night With Ken Burns, airing his films The Roosevelts, The National Parks and The War (created with partner Lynn Novick).

The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...

Ken Burns calls his films "an intimate history," and focuses on so much more than the public history and well-known facts about the three. He gives in-depth descriptions of the triad's personal lives ...