THE U.S. AND THE HOLOCAUST, a new three-part, six-hour series directed and produced by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, explores America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian ...

One of the techniques filmmaker Ken Burns harnessed so effectively in The Civil War was using the actual historical record—photographs, diaries, speeches—to "let the war tell its own story." ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...