Filmmaker Ken Burns said it's "shortsighted" to eliminate funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, as public media has become a target of the White House.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns spoke with CBS News' John Dickerson about his new film on the American Revolution. More from their conversation will air on the CBS Evening News and Face the Nation.

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 ...

I mean, it turned the world upside down," Burns told CBS News' John Dickerson in an interview set to air on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Sunday.

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.

Ken Burns: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting and another agency that has felt the ax, the National Endowment for the Humanities, have been central to my origin story.