The United States began developing the atom bomb in military effort called the Manhattan Project. The race to create this weapon kicked off after three chemists in Berlin, 1938, split a uranium atom ...

Ken Burns' documentary series "The American Revolution" placed PBS in Nielsen's streaming Top 10 for the first time ...

Director Lynn Novick to Follow Central Park’s Evolution from a Democratic Experiment in the 1850s to America’s Most Celebrated Public Space Three-Part Series to Weave History and Imagery to Explore ...

Ken Burns' "The American Revolution" made PBS history as the six-part documentary landed as the No. 10 most-watched streaming acquired title.

As a co-director of “The American Revolution,” the six-part PBS documentary that premieres on Sunday, David Schmidt seems in every sense thoroughly modern. And yet, he said in an interview, “I like to ...

In many ways, Ken Burns is the Van Halen of historical documentary directors. Before you jump, hear me out. Watching the acclaimed filmmaker’s upcoming The American Revolution with some apprehension, ...

Explore a massive collection of thought-provoking documentaries, including exclusive films from Ken Burns. Sometimes I like taking a break from all my scripted shows to watch something a little ...

NEW YORK — On a chilly midweek afternoon, hundreds of New York City high school students gathered in the pews of Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan. The lesson was “Who tells your story?” The teachers, ...

“Paradox: Echoes of Reform & the Minneapolis Police” was released on Twin Cities PBS Oct. 21. NINA MOINI: The phrase "Minneapolis police reform" may bring to mind the events of 2020. The murder of ...

Documentary maker Ken Burns doesn’t think today’s polarized politics are anything new, especially for a country that, as he sees it, already had two civil wars — the American Revolution of 1776 and ...