Documentaries possess a rare power to bridge time and space, weaving together fragments of reality into narratives that resonate deeply within the human psyche. They illuminate hidden truths, reveal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new documentary on the American Revolution will soon shine a light on the events that launched a nation. The six-part, 12-hour ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "The American Revolution" is scheduled to begin airing November 16. (PBS) Amid the nation's upcoming semiquincentennial ...

Wednesday, Sept. 17, is “Constitution Day.” It marks the day that the United States Constitution was signed in 1787. Documentary filmmakers Ken Burns, David Schmidt and Sarah Botstein marked the day ...

The American Revolution, the six-part, 12-hour documentary series directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt, that premiered on PBS in November 2025, will stream for free on all PBS ...

“Nothing was ever quaint,” mused Ken Burns in a New York film studio last spring, as he made some last edits to his latest documentary, a chronicle of the American revolution that debuts next month.

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 ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — A new documentary series by filmmaker Ken Burns exploring America’s founding and its War for Independence is set to be released in November, but people can catch a sneak peek ...

South Carolina is a major focus of a new documentary series directed by Ken Burns, and he said it’s his most crucial project in his nearly 50 years of filmmaking. The new six-part series entitled “The ...

Legendary documentary film director Ken Burns this week said South Carolina was one of two violent colonies where it would have been really hard to have lived during America’s war for independence.

John Trumbull's 1818 painting, <i>Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776</i>, depicting the five-man drafting committee of the Declaration of Independence presenting their work to the Congress.