Filmmaker Ken Burns explains the importance of the American Revolution, telling "CBS Evening News" co-anchor and CBS News chief political analyst John Dickerson that he thinks it's "the most ...

We pretend, with the election of Barack Obama, that we’re in some post-racial society. Of course we’re not!” Burns told host John Dickerson. “What we have seen is a kind of reaction to this.

Burns — whose upcoming film "The American Revolution" is expected to air on PBS on Nov. 16 — also reflected on some of the "complicated stories" in America's short history.

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because it's "an unbelievable guide to who we are." The Revolutionary War is ...

Ahead of four events in Boston, Lexington, and Concord in coming days, Ken Burns talks about his star-studded, 12-hour documentary series coming later this year. The post Ken Burns is everywhere ...

Ken Burns works on his epic on the American Revolution, scheduled to air later this year, upstairs in the barn at his home in Walpole, N.H. Tony Cenicola/The New York Times ...

On a tour across the country to promote his latest epic documentary, “The American Revolution,” Ken Burns has been hitting the local public-television stations, museums and associations that ...