Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Wednesday marks 50 years since the “fall of Saigon” and the end of the Vietnam War. This is certainly understandable. While scholars in recent years have enriched our understanding of the political ...

The Vietnam War was a long, costly and bitterly debated conflict that pitted the Communist government of North Vietnam against anti-Communist South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.

A new documentary on the American Revolution will soon shine a light on the events that launched a nation. Filmmaker Ken Burns, renowned for long-form documentaries like The Civil War, Baseball, and ...

For the next two weeks, PBS stations around the country are airing a 10-part documentary about the Vietnam War. The trauma of Vietnam runs deep for many of those who fought there, and the Department ...

HANOVER, N.H. -- Filmmaker Ken Burns views the Vietnam War as a virus that infected Americans with an array of chronic illnesses -- alienation, a lack of civil discourse, mistrust of government and ...

Well-known documentarian Ken Burns made a stop in Rhode Island Thursday to preview an upcoming documentary series of his that ...

Ken Burns’ long-awaited 10-part documentary on the Vietnam War begins Sunday on PBS. Burns, along with co-director Lynn Novick, produced an 18-hour series that "tells the epic story of one of the most ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns, in his latest documentary series, tackles what he calls ‘the most important event in the history of the ...

The Vietnam veterans and other former Special Forces soldiers who meet every Friday at Mike Johnson’s accounting office on Perkins Road plan to watch the 10-part PBS documentary, “The Vietnam War,” ...

Ken Burns will produce a 10-12 hour documentary on Vietnam, to air in 2016, he announced earlier this afternoon. Lynn Novick, his longtime collaborator, will co-pilot the project. Burns – his landmark ...