Taylor Sheridan's 'Landman' is no match for one of the greatest documentaries ever made about American History.

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, the new six-part, 12-hour series that is currently streaming on PBS (directed by Ken Burns, Sarah ...

This is “woke”? Nothing in the series struck me as virtue signaling. In fact, the opposite: The documentary scans a ...

This past June, at a No Kings rally outside a white clapboard church in a little brick town in the lower right-hand corner of Vermont, Green Mountaineers huddled together in raincoats under a ...

Next year, America will celebrate its semiquincentennial, or its 250th anniversary, but the 250th anniversary of the start of the American Revolution is this year. This makes it a big year for one 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 ...

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 ...

Ken Burns's new documentary achieves a tone that is unmistakably Burns: measured, atmospheric, at times elegiac and always ...

Siege of Yorktown. General Rochambeau and general Washington give last orders before an attack, October 1781. Auguste Couder (1789–1873). Artist Auguste Couder, 1836 (Photo by Pierce Archive ...

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 ...

Ahead of the PBS production’s premiere, the legendary filmmaker and co-director Sarah Botstein share insights on their research process and the surprising, long-overlooked stories featured in the ...

Often overlooked, the French "Charleville" infantry musket was one of the most significant longarms of the 18th and 19th ...