People like to say that history repeats itself, but Ken Burns isn’t buying it. “Every event is new and unique,” documentarian Burns says. “What doesn’t change is human nature. Human nature stays the ...

Ken Burns will produce a 10-12 hour documentary on Vietnam, to air in 2016, he announced earlier this afternoon. Lynn Novick, his longtime collaborator, will co-pilot the project. Burns – his landmark ...

Ken Burns’ long-awaited 10-part documentary on the Vietnam War begins Sunday on PBS. Burns, along with co-director Lynn Novick, produced an 18-hour series that "tells the epic story of one of the most ...

Wednesday marks 50 years since the “fall of Saigon” and the end of the Vietnam War. This is certainly understandable. While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the political ...

After capturing hundreds of hours of footage, over a decade, for his new docuseries "The American Revolution," filmmaker Ken ...

In September 2007, I wrote “This is the big one” to lead off a review of “The War,” Ken Burns’ 14-hour documentary about World War II. It turns out the sentence was wrong. This is really the big one - ...

Recently, I attended a premier of Ken Burns’ latest documentary, “The Vietnam War”, at the Ace Hotel Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The theater’s 1,600 seats were about 95% full. The “premier” was ...

After the traveling Vietnam War memorial, "The Wall That Heals," visited Johns Creek in April, Georgia Public Broadcasting reached out to the city about hosting a film screening. In its pitch, GPB ...