The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

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Choose from the following options to learn about the people, places and events surrounding the Civil War. Explore each episode and watch clips from the film.

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The American Revolution, a new six-part, 12-hour documentary ... The filmmakers and PBS scheduled the broadcast for 2025, the 250th anniversary of the start of the war, which began in the spring ...

Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on the American Revolution. It will air for six consecutive nights and will ...

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12-hour documentary series from the prolific Ken Burns that explores the country’s founding and its eight-year War for Independence, will premiere on PBS Sunday, November 16, 2025. The limited ...

During this week of International Holocaust Remembrance, Resistance: They Fought Back, an important new Holocaust documentary ...

For all that, New Market Heights is little more than a footnote in Civil War history—a battle, scholars agree, that deserves better. “It fell to black sergeants to keep the unit organized ...