One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The Civil War was using the actual ... of this technique so dramatically is a letter written from Camp Clark, Washington ...

“The story of America is improvisation,” the American filmmaker Ken Burns told me ... Since then, Burns has produced films about topics ranging from the Statue of Liberty, Thomas Jefferson and the ...

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

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 ...