Filmmaker Ken Burns on the appeal of his Leonardo da Vinci ... raise money for my first film on the Brooklyn Bridge, I wrote a letter saying I was interested in emotional archeology, not ...

One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The ... the power of this technique so dramatically is a letter written from Camp Clark, Washington, D.C., by Sullivan Ballou ...

Ken Burns’ first goal was to get away ... In 2021, more than 100 documentary filmmakers signed a letter of protest, slamming PBS for allowing a white director to tell the story of Muhammad ...

As one of America’s most renowned story tellers who has made a name chronicling this nation’s past, the good, great, the bad and the truly terrible, Ken Burns does not buy one accepted truth a ...

Ken Burns has told me time and again ... But his latest film, for the first time, looks “at just the two lowercase letters,” the 17-time Emmy winner told me from his Walpole, New Hampshire ...

KEN BURNS: I think that we see ourselves as an ... but I’ve also been making films about us—that is to say the lowercase two-letter plural pronoun. And what I’ve learned is there’s only ...

He (and his collaborators) largely ditch the “Ken Burns effect” of letting the camera roam across a still image. He still uses actors to read letters (and Keith David is nicely deployed as a ...