Longtime documentary filmmaker Ken Burns praised the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) as the "Declaration of Independence" for communications while lamenting the loss of its federal funding on ...

Austin (CNN) — 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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cannon in silhouette from the Yorktown Battlefield at Colonial National Historical Park in Yorktown, Va. (PBS) For the first time ...

It would be hard to imagine today, but for a week in the fall of 1990, it seemed almost everyone in America was watching the same thing, at the same time. Nearly 40 million people tuned in for at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776. Painting by John Trumbull, 1818. - Yale University Art Gallery/Courtesy PBS ...