Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

WALPOLE, N.H. -- When Ken Burns' "Civil War" hit public television in 1990, it was a revelation: Burns invested a faded period of American history with new life, color and emotion. The public does not ...

It would be hard to imagine today, but for a week in the fall of 1990, it seemed almost everyone in America was watching the same thing, at the same time. Nearly 40 million people tuned in for at ...

Ken Burns has produced a documentary about the Revolutionary War that sets a new standard for historical documentaries. This has been said of Burns before, at least since “The Civil War” premiered in ...