“Ten Nights in a Barroom” (1926): A silent film featuring an all-Black cast, it’s based on a stage melodrama adapted from ...

"The Big Chill," "Glory," "Philadelphia" and "The Grand Budapest Hotel" are among the titles selected for preservation, each ...

Full list: The 25 classic movies being added to National Film Registry this year - As if they’d leave Clueless off the list ...

During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his ...

PBS will rebroadcast the hit docuseries over six consecutive Fridays Jan. 9-Feb. 13, plus the Oklahoma History Center will host a Jan. 24 screening.

When “The American Revolution” unfolds this month on PBS, don’t get the idea that you weren’t told the truth in elementary school. “What I learned in school was not wrong,” says director David Schmidt ...

PBS has extended Ken Burns’ free streaming window for his history docuseries “The American Revolution,” following its ratings success. The 12-hour documentary series, directed by Burns, Sarah Botstein ...

Here is a suggested Morning Call publication topic for our upcoming 250th Declaration of Independence (1776) anniversary (2026): Publish the Federalist Papers (1787-1788) alongside historian ...

Wonderful story about Ken Burns and his amazing story-telling talent (“Ken Burns Believes the American Revolution Belongs to All of Us,” November 9). I have watched almost all of his films and each ...

In 2023, word spread across central Louisiana that Ken Burns was in Alexandria. The documentary filmmaker known for “The Civil War,” “Baseball” and “Jazz” wasn’t scouting locations or collecting ...