Ken Burn's 'American Revolution' features Oklahoma native's paintings

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus t History Center will host a Jan. 24 screening.

Filmmaker Ken Burns delves into American Revolution at Palm Beach talk

During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his ...
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 ...
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Ken Burns Loves America—and You Can, Too

On the Fourth of July—a day that Ken Burns unsurprisingly refers to as “by far, by far, my favorite holiday”—I accompanied the legendary documentary filmmaker to a naturalization ceremony on the West ...
Oregonian

Ken Burns on ‘The American Revolution,’ and ‘incredibly misguided’ cuts to public media funding

For many Americans, the Revolutionary War was the country’s star-spangled origin story, a righteous battle between home-grown patriots and invading British forces, which ended in the triumphant ...