The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two ...

The War changed cities and towns across the country and shaped those who lived there. Explore Sign up to get updates about the film and future projects from Ken Burns and Florentine Films.

PBS Distribution will launch Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon's documentary series on the life and works of Leonardo ...

Ken Burns, whose five decades of filmmaking have ... His 6-part, 12-hour Revolutionary War project, already six years in the ...

(JTA) — For his next historical deep dive, famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is exploring ... ever worked on,” Burns, the director of such works as “The Civil War,” “Jazz” and ...

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.

Ken Burns is making a history-based fundraising ... email from Harris’s campaign that was signed by Burns, the “Civil War” documentary filmmaker called the presidential race “among the ...

Legendary filmmaker Ken Burns received the Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024 NBC Universal, Inc. Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken ...

Although the new PBS documentary series The Vietnam War required more than a decade of production and clocks in at a healthy 18 hours, the filmmakers who made it are being criticized for not being ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Acclaimed documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, received a special honor ... aspects of American history including the Civil War, baseball, and the National Parks system.

It was first awarded in 1989 to Lech Walesa, the former president of Poland and leader of the country’s Solidarity movement in 1983 against communism during the Cold War. Previous medal ...

Ken Burns is making a history-based fundraising pitch for Vice President Harris’s White House campaign, saying that “our ...