Archival images of 16,000 photographs ... and the inclusion of first-person accounts. In the words of Ken Burns, "the Civil War was history running on all cylinders. It was the most important ...

“Old bouncing images … going through film sprockets ... When PBS first showed “The Civil War: A Film by Ken Burns” in September 1990, it became a national sensation, ultimately seen ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because ...

The Address: A Film by Ken Burns A 90-minute feature length ... battle maps for most major Civil War battles, history articles, photos, and more. Through educational programs and heritage tourism ...

The PBS filmmaker, known for striking films like "The Civil War," "Jazz," and "Baseball" has a new documentary coming out ...

One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The Civil War was using the actual historical record—photographs, diaries, speeches—to "let the war tell its own story." ...

Ken Burns needs no introduction. As the designated documentarian of the American experience — with series about the Civil War ...

The book will be released five days ahead of its documentary counterpart by the same name, a six-part series on PBS Ken Burns is exploring ... 100 Years Before Civil War. Was He Lying?

Ken Burns, whose five decades of filmmaking have produced detailed portraits of presidents, wars, buffaloes and more, is about to take on a 21st century political lightning rod in the American ...