Tuesday, October 10, 2023 - Ken Burns is out with a new documentary. We visit with the filmmaker about The American Buffalo, a biography of an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of the country’s most mythic tales, after facing near extinction. The two-part series premieres on PBS stati

When it comes to history—particularly American history—nothing is ever definitive, says documentarian Ken Burns. Much of his work has focused on capturing that history in film, but in his new book, Our America: A Photographic History, his goal is to share the complexity of his country as well as honor those roots in st

Washington Post senior writer Frances Stead Sellers speaks with documentarian about discuss his new book, “Our America” and how the past can shape our understanding of the present. Conversation recorded on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022.

The documentary filmmaker, known for The Civil War, Jazz, and Baseball, turns his attention to the Holocaust, and asks what we can learn from the evils of the past.

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for over forty years. Since the Academy Award nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made. His latest film is about the extraordinary life of Benjamin Franklin coming to PBS in April. M

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a scientist, inventor, writer and diplomat. As one of the leading figures of early American history, Franklin helped to draft the Declaration of Independence in 1776, worked to negotiate the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War in 1783, and was a delegate to the convention