Choosing your favorite Ken Burns series has as much to do with your historical interests as the quality of any individual ...

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Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...

Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then and now.

Here’s a look at the actors who brought The American Revolution to life: Peter Coyote is the narrator. He speaks throughout ...

In an article, the head of the presidential administration for monitoring and analysing social processes condemns those who ...

Movies grew angrier, more subversive, and much more violent in the '60s, and these superb films are emblematic of their times ...

Using only a basic rifle, Simo Häyhä picked off Soviet aggressors one by one. His story inspired the stupendously violent ...