Ken Burns on why the American Revolution was a "big deal in world history" 01:45. The American Revolution was one of the most ...

As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns spoke with CBS News' John Dickerson about his new film on the American Revolution. More from ...

THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary series that explores the country's founding and its eight-year War for Independence, will premiere on Sunday, November 16 at 7pm and ...

American history is more polarizing than ever. But the country’s leading storyteller wants to prove there’s still an appetite ...

Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on this 250th anniversary.

Ken Burns has spent nearly a decade unpacking the complicated, violent and world-changing story of the American Revolution, a ...

In an interview that aired on Sunday’s (July 6) edition of CBS News’ Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan, Burns told CBS ...

Ken Burns’ The American Revolution debuts on PBS Nov. 16. A tie-in book, The American Revolution: An Intimate History by Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, will be published Nov. 11 by Penguin ...

Through Ken Burns' lens, history is never a thing of the past but rather an echo of whatever we are going through in modern times. His latest subject — the American Revolutionary War — is no ...