JAY UNGAR: We were asked by Ken [Burns] to come to Brattleboro, Vermont, and record music for The Civil War series, and this would be a lot of the traditional, period music. And as it turns out ...

Ken Burns has produced documentaries about life in America. He's covered baseball, the Civil War, jazz and National Parks, and his latest documentary is an eight part series on country music, a ...

Ken Burns' new series ... I thought The Vietnam War [2017] was the most complicated thing I’d ever done. But Country Music is a Russian novel, with dozens of characters and lots of literal ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

"The American Revolution" from Ken Burns will debut on PBS Sunday, November 16. It airs for six consecutive nights.

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns received a massive honor in Philadelphia Tuesday night. Burns, 71, got the 36 th annual Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center in Old City.

Ken Burns and his team typically tackle expansive topics: The Civil War. National Parks. Baseball. Country music. But sometimes ... and in his latest documentary, Burns zooms in on the one and ...

I think you’re being too kind to Ken Burns. What he said wasn’t inaccurate, it was entirely ridiculous. It’s not merely that our current era doesn’t compare to the Civil War; it’s that ...

“The story of America is improvisation,” the American filmmaker Ken Burns told me back in 2001, during an interview about his landmark documentary series Jazz ... Thomas Jefferson and the Civil War to ...