Ken Burns on America's origin story: "The most important event since the birth of Christ"

The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS, "The American ...

‘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 ...
LancasterOnline

Revisiting Ken Burns’ ‘Baseball’ documentary renews some belief in America [letter]

Four years have not erased the stunned disbelief regarding an insurrection against the U.S. Constitution. However, I have discovered a reassuring common point upon which to rebuild political trust: ...
NBC New York

Getting Pumped for Burns' “Baseball” Return

In his classic routine on the differences between football and baseball, George Carlin noted that the action on the gridiron is rigidly timed while the National Pastime is essentially timeless. "We ...
Newsweek

Baseball Is Forever

Ken Burns has a thing for metaphors, so here's one about him. A couple of months ago, the filmmaker found himself perched on the mound at Cleveland's Jacobs Field. Burns had been invited to throw out ...
The Atlantic

Ken Burns's Return to Baseball Snags Mixed Reviews

At 8 p.m. tonight on PBS, Ken Burns returns to baseball with his much-anticipated documentary "The Tenth Inning." Picking up where his celebrated 1994 documentary "Baseball" left off, Burns explores ...

Ken Burns on his ‘most important’ project yet — The American Revolution

Ken Burns tackles ‘the most important event in the history of the world since the birth of Christ’—America’s Revolutionary War ...