Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns lamented the federal spending cuts to PBS and praised public broadcasting as the "Declaration of Independence" of communication.

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns defended federal funding for PBS on Hasan Minhaj's podcast, warning rural areas could become a "news desert" without it.

Following public media’s loss of federal funding, PBS SoCal is hoping viewers will help fill the gap. It has announced We Public Television, a star-studded live three-hour telethon, which will air on ...

Corporate funding for THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was provided by Bank of America. Major funding was provided by The Better Angels Society and its members Jeannie and Jonathan Lavine with the Crimson Lion ...

Arkansas has become the first state to cut ties with PBS after a state commission voted to end the public television ...

The six-part documentary explores the United States’ founding struggle and its eight-year War for Independence, examining how these “turned the world upside-down.” It airs nightly through Nov. 21.

While I support George Will’s E-R 11/14 syndicated column endorsement of the upcoming Ken Burns PBS documentary on the Revolutionary War (i.e., “The American Revolution” will immerse viewers in an ...

In his latest series, Ken Burns, veteran of renowned documentaries on the Civil and Vietnam wars, tells the story of the ordinary men and women who took on the mighty British Empire to found a new ...

Ken Burns talks with filmmaker Ken Burns on his latest project. Filmmaker Ken Burns discusses his upcoming six-part series, “The American Revolution,” which looks at one of the pivotal events in world ...

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 ...