The famed filmmaker ditched a prestigious writers’ award and $20,000 prize to attend a secretive men’s-only camp.

The Pioneer High School graduate received a nomination for his work on the PBS series "The American Revolution," which premiered last November. He has previously received five Emmys.

Documentarian Ken Burns said in an appearance on "Meet the Press" that the American story is all about overcoming divisions.

Ken Burns keeps a neon sign in his editing room reading, “It’s complicated.” That was certainly true of his illuminating and ...

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Ken Burns, who has helped to tell the story of the nation’s history through celebrated documentaries, attributes much of his success to the education he received at Hampshire College. Faced with the ...

Award-winning filmmaker and historian Ken Burns of Walpole played the role of cleanup hitter Friday, making the final argument in New Hampshire’s bid to convince the Democratic National Committee (DNC ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns said the American Revolution has been “sanitized,” calling the war “dark and bloody.” “I think we have sanitized the war. And I — I think it’s out of an understandable ...

Documentarian Ken Burns told NBC's "Meet the Press" that on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he believes Americans are worried about the country lasting another ten years. KEN ...

BRINGING BEFORE THE DNC RULES AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE. KEN BURNS, THE WORLD RENOWNED DOCUMENTARIAN WHO LIVES IN WALPOLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, IS PROVIDING THE CLOSING ARGUMENT FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE’S FIRST IN THE ...

Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...

Ken Burns' latest documentary, "The American Revolution," was financially supported by the Better Angels Society. The Better Angels Society is a nonprofit that has raised over $100 million for Burns ...