The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places, from Valverde, New Mexico, and Tullahoma, Tennessee, to St. Albans, Vermont, and Fernandina on the Florida coast. More than 3 million Americans fought in ...

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 ...

Ken Burns, whose five decades of filmmaking have ... While Burns encountered pockets of animus with his breakout historical ...

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.

This week, senior reporter Eileen Kinsella speaks to documentarian Ken Burns about his first foray outside of American ...

Ken Burns added: "He's an anatomist, and he's a botanist, and he's interested in flight, and he's a sculptor, and he's a painter, and he's an artist, and he's all of those. The reason why it's such a ...

Elisha Hunt Rhodes was a Civil War officer from a Cranston family (Rhodes on the Pawtuxet) who rose from private to the rank of colonel. His detailed diary became a major source for documentary editor ...

Ken Burns has been making documentaries. Over the years, he's created 36 documentary series for PBS, all of them about American history, from "The Civil War," "Baseball" and "Jazz," to ...

Part, Four-Hour Film Traces the Near Demise – and Ultimate Return – of the U.S. National Mammal, While Examining the Species’ ...

The Vietnam War directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, this is the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Source: Supplied In this special episode, Fiona and Nick ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. WESTMINSTER WEST — Pianist Jacqueline Schwab, heard on Ken Burns’ "Civil War" and many of his other documentaries, will perform her solo program Tunes ...