The 12-hour docuseries highlights nearly 150 characters and 36 battle sequences that range from the well-known, like Bunker ...

The most consequential shift that year was not one of battle lines but of ideology.

Read John Kiesewetter's guide to the filmmaker's 12-hour "The American Revolution," premiering Nov. 16-21 on PBS.

The directors and writer of the six-part docuseries say the revolution is 'wrapped in a lot of mythology and nostalgia,' ...

O n May 4, 1783, my ancestor William Fraser landed in Shelburne after a nine-day sail from New York City, part of a fleet of ...

The 1851 painting by Emanuel Leutze titled “Washington Crossing the Delaware.” Ken Burns is back with “The American ...

Premieres Sunday, Nov. 16 - Friday, Nov. 21, 2025 from 8-10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream with KPBS+ / Encore Sunday, Nov. 16 - 21 at 10 p.m. - Midnight on KPBS TV. The series examines how America’s ...

When most people think about the Revolutionary War, their minds jump straight to the famous names—Lexington, Concord, Bunker ...

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

The six-part miniseries "The Revolutionary War," also helmed by filmmakers Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and written by ...

"We've made enough energy for all the people in the West and north of the equator, but we just haven't finished the job," ...

The Stono Rebellion, in which a slave who could read, saw a leaflet from Spanish-held Florida, promising freedom to anyone who could get there. Stono and his compatriots fail. But their mere attempt ...