The book will be released five days ahead of its documentary counterpart by the same name, a six-part series on PBS ...

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War tells the story of a daring rescue mission that occurred on the precipice of World War II. It tells the ... III and legendary filmmaker Ken Burns serves as ...

World War II may be the ultimate example ... may otherwise get made fun of by many of the people who usually watch Ken Burns documentaries. Through all of American history, Vietnam may have ...

One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The Civil War was using the actual historical record—photographs, diaries, speeches—to "let the war tell its own story." ...

Jay Ungar and Molly Mason have been playing music together since 1978 and have become widely known for their work with Ken Burns and other public broadcasting favorites—Great Performances and ...

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history ...

Ken Burns is famous for documenting battles. Now he’s joined one. Lure Fishbar has been a staple in New York’s Soho neighborhood for 20 years, and local Burns is campaigning to save it from ...

There may be no better summation of the crossroads that still live in the music here – the soundtrack to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary, The Vietnam War – than this ...

If viewers are caught humming any tune after watching Ken Burns's Baseball, chances are that it will be "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." The 1908 vaudeville classic is heard in dozens of versions ...

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's two-part, four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century's most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words ...