Like every great Ken Burns documentary, the letters and writings of the people involved are an important part of telling the ...

Laura Linney is among the huge A-list cast, but she’s not playing Giamatti’s wife Abigal Adams this time — Claire Danes is.

The six-part documentary examines the War for Independence and will air nightly through November 21. Watch it for free.

When Martin enlisted in the Connecticut militia in 1776, the teen was too young to vote but old enough to die. Over the next seven years, he’d experience nearly every major battle and hardship of the ...

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on 11/14/25, we preview the new Ken Burns' documentary series, "The ...

Eisenhower Fellowships Chairman, former U.S. Secretary of Defense Dr. Robert M. Gates, will present the prestigious medal to Burns at EF's Annual Awards Dinner on May 13, 2026 at the National ...

The acclaimed filmmaker’s PBS documentary is a captivating look at the fear, risk and courage that forged a country ...

Over a decade after her Academy Award-winning portrayal of a troubled young woman in “Silver Linings Playbook” (2012), ...

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his ...