Ken Burns interview, 'The American Revolution,' 'The Simpsons'

The Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker insisted that he play himself on the long-running Fox animated series.
Yahoo

Full interview: Ken Burns on "Face the Nation"

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As the U.S. celebrates 249 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, CBS Evening News co-anchor John Dickerson ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Ken Burns Still Thinks America Is Perfectible

Ken Burns is back. A storyteller of America for nearly 50 years, the lauded documentary maker has a new series airing on PBS — and yes, it’s another epic. Having made his name in the 1990s with The ...
The Portland Mercury

An Interview with Ken Burns About His Must-See Country Music

From left: Dolly Parton (Queen of the Known and Unknown Universe), Dayton Duncan (writer) and Ken Burns (director). Credit: Katy Haas MERCURY: First of all, why country music? What was it about this ...
Salon

Ken Burns meets America’s latest crisis

Having spent nearly 50 years telling America’s stories, warts and all, Ken Burns knows better than to traffic in the reassurance business. I was reminded of that on Monday when I spoke with him a ...
Wicked Local

Ken Burns on his latest documentary. 'The most important event since the birth of Christ.'

A new six-part documentary series from Ken Burns titled "The American Revolution" is set to premiere on Nov. 16. The film explores the eight-year war, which Burns considers the most consequential ...
The Boston Globe

‘Human nature doesn’t change.’ Ken Burns on what we learn from the American Revolution.

In 1975, a skinny Hampshire College kid making his first movie, a documentary about rural life in the early 1800s, hauled his reluctant body from bed before dawn to film reenactors at Old Sturbridge ...

Ken Burns

Ken Burns on "Face the Nation" As the U.S. celebrates 249 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, "CBS ...
Indy Week

“Everything Matters”: Talking With Ken Burns

Ken Burns has produced nearly all of his documentaries with PBS—over 30 films and series spanning four decades—and his upcoming series on the Revolutionary War is no different. The six-part, 12-hour ...
WHYY

WHYY to preview Ken Burns’ new ‘American Revolution’ documentary in Camden

From Camden and Cherry Hill to Trenton and the Jersey Shore, what about life in New Jersey do you want WHYY News to cover? Let us know. Americans, and Philadelphians in particular, might think they ...
The Stranger

An Interview with Ken Burns About His Must-See Country Music

From left: Dolly Parton (Queen of the Known and Unknown Universe), Dayton Duncan (writer) and Ken Burns (director). Credit: KATY HAAS Ken Burns is a goddamn American treasure. For more than three ...