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Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...
American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...
Ken Burns told Axios that his forthcoming six-part series — "The American Revolution" — has been in the works since December 2015 and required "years and years and years" of filming war reenactors ...
And a Ken Burns documentary series always starts with a clear-cut summary of things to come—provided, this time, by frequent Burns narrator Peter Coyote. The U.S. and the Holocaust, like many Ken ...
The strokes of brilliance in “Leonardo da Vinci” include the use of narrator Keith David, a Burns veteran (“Jazz,” “Muhammad Ali”), and the sonic infiltration throughout of Ms. Shaw ...
Ken Burns' two-part, four-hour documentary Leonardo da Vinci is set to air November 18-19 from 8-10 p.m. ET on PBS. ... Keith David serves as the film’s narrator. Related Stories News ...
Ken Burns discusses his new two-part film on the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci and how it fits in with his own codex of documentaries. It’s hard to believe that Ken Burns has had a rule for ...
Ken Burns’s latest documentary series, “The American Revolution,” doesn’t start airing for another five months. It debuts on PBS Nov. 16.
Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because it's "an unbelievable guide to who we are." The Revolutionary War is ...
Ken Burns’ absorbing new Leonardo da Vinci doc on PBS sidesteps one important question Leonardo da Vinci, “The bust of a man, the head of a lion,” circa 1510, red chalk (The Royal Collection ...