Six months away from its 250th year, the United States of America is still in its infancy. It is an empire forever moving and shifting, trying to decide what it will be. Prolific documentarian Ken ...

Skaters at a listening party for Beyoncé's new album, "Cowboy Carter," at Discovery Green's outdoor roller-skating rink in Houston on March 29. (Mark Felix/AFP/Getty Images) correctionAn earlier ...

LOS ANGELES -- Ken Burns’ documentary “Country Music” is a game changer for the genre, says singer Marty Stuart. “It gives the traditional country fan, who never thought (he or she) would hear or see ...

Respected documentarian Ken Burns' latest project is a PBS docuseries that explores the American Revolution in extreme detail ...

Ken Burns is the greatest documentarian of our time. With films such as The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), Country Music (2019), ...

When it comes to filmmaking, Ken Burns is one of the greatest of all time. He is an artist who has dedicated much of his life to telling the story of America in epic documentaries, spanning from 10 to ...

If I were still teaching in the Yakima School District, I would promote Ken Burns’ latest documentary, "The American Revolution," to be part of the curriculum ...

On the Fourth of July—a day that Ken Burns unsurprisingly refers to as “by far, by far, my favorite holiday”—I accompanied the legendary documentary filmmaker to a naturalization ceremony on the West ...

Your TV GPS, a look at the week ahead in television, appears every Monday morning on BostonGlobe.com. Today’s column covers Nov 18-24. As William Shakespeare’s Hamlet said, “What a piece of work is a ...

It would be hard to imagine today, but for a week in the fall of 1990, it seemed almost everyone in America was watching the same thing, at the same time. Nearly 40 million people tuned in for at ...

In his latest project, Ken Burns turns his lens to the American Revolution — an event he has called the most significant since the birth of Christ. Ken Burns shares 3 thoughts on upcoming 'American ...

Country Music (8 p.m. and 10 p.m., PBS / UNC-TV) - Documentary filmmaking master Ken Burns does it again, this time providing a definitive eight-part, 16-hour chronicle of the history of country music ...