In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

Amid plans to mark the nation’s semiquincentennial, many are asking whether or not the people really do rule, and whether the ...

From Tom Hanks and Samuel L. Jackson to Meryl Streep and Claire Danes, American stars help tell the story of The American ...

Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein discuss their six-part, 10-year labor of love, which finally makes it to PBS on6.

No matter how many hours you spend scouring blogs and Googling statistics, there’s no way of knowing exactly what your ...

The race for the documentary feature Academy Award spotlights quality filmmaking, but also requires a whole lot of money and ...

On a chilly midweek afternoon, hundreds of New York City high school students gathered in the pews of Trinity Church in Lower ...

Experience Butler County PA reports on Pennsylvania's rich German heritage, spotlighting historic towns like Harmony, Germantown, and Zelienople.

While there are undoubtedly far too many characters to choose from for a definitive list of the greatest Western characters, ...

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American Revolution," and why the end of the Revolutionary War did not mean the end ...

While movies are always held to a higher standard, some miniseries, like Chernobyl, manage to deliver movie quality right on ...