Ken Burns's new documentary on the American Revolution engages in historical revisionism that ignores actual history.

The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns takes a deep dive into the event that led up to the American Revolutionary War, its aftermath ...

Anti-Catholicism was not a central force driving the colonists to revolt, but it played a role, shaping their political ...

Ken Burns spent a decade creating his documentary series about "The American Revolution." It couldn't have come at a more ...

Some historians have criticized Ken Burns’ docuseries The American Revolution for allegedly overstating Iroquois influence on ...

Ken Burns new PBS documentary reminds us how bloody an messy the revolution was. When the myths are stripped away, though, it ...

Sunday’s premiere of Ken Burns’ new PBS series “The American Revolution” doubles as an attention-grabbing statement, months after President Donald Trump succeeded in stripping away all federal funding ...

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Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated. No, he does not want to talk about President Trump. Burns’s 12-hour ...

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HBO's documentary looking at the $3-billion active shooter preparedness industry amplifies the seriousness and the banality ...