Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it.

The film vividly embraces the entire sweep of the war: the complex causes and lasting effects ... In the words of Ken Burns, "the Civil War was history running on all cylinders.

EXCLUSIVE: Ken Burns’ latest American history series is headed for the London TV Screenings. PBS Distribution has taken ...

An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns ... the sun—which often caused oppressive heat—but ...

TODAY — Pictured: Ken Burns ... said Ken Burns in a statement. “The story of the birth of this country is at once devastating and inspiring. It was a bloody civil war that divided families ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns will visit Lexington and Concord on April 17 to discuss his new documentary, "The American Revolution." ...

(JTA) — One of the first people introduced in Ken ... Burns told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Burns is the foremost documentarian of American history, with iconic works such as “The Civil ...

Ken Burns is making a history-based fundraising ... In a Wednesday fundraising email from Harris’s campaign that was signed ...

The much-anticipated series, which has been in production for eight years, was directed and produced by Ken Burns ... by the war. THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION was a war for independence, a civil ...