Legendary filmmaker Ken Burns received the Liberty Medal at the ... and culture throughout his work as well as his signature technique of rapidly and fluidly cutting from one still image to ...

Life can be painful. Sometimes it’s the emotional kind, but the physical kind is experienced by most of us, at least eventually. Time takes its toll on the human body and the years too often bring ...

That line of thinking has led to new techniques flipping the script on how ... Wiley and colleague Ken Gall, a professor of ...

“That was electrifying for me. We had Ken Burns movies on in the house when I was a kid and so I was aware of his work… I remember going to the theater and watching “Hoop Dreams” and going, ‘Oh, wow, ...

Ken Burns is making a history-based fundraising pitch for Vice President Harris’s White House campaign, saying that “our democracy hangs in the balance.” In a Wednesday fundraising email ...

Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns and Jeffrey Rosen of the National Constitution Center join Morning Joe to discuss the center's plans to honor Burns with its Liberty Medal on Tuesday.

In bestowing Ken Burns with its 2024 Liberty Medal, the National Constitution Center called him “America’s history teacher,” and he spoke to Ali Velshi about the “echoes” and “rhymes ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, received a special honor in Philadelphia on Tuesday. Burns was honored with the National Constitution Center's 36th annual ...

Bush, and South African President Nelson Mandela. Burns was selected as this year’s recipient because of his decades of work chronicling periods of the nation’s history that compel “all of ...

Famed documentarian Ken Burns has been a regular on the cable news circuit for the past year. Instead of promoting his shows in a neutral fashion to appeal to a wider audience, he is mostly ...

Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it. The ...