Recently, I attended a premier of Ken Burns’ latest documentary, “The Vietnam War”, at the Ace Hotel Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The theater’s 1,600 seats were about 95% full. The “premier” was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Matt McClain/The Washington Post) There’s a neon sign in Ken Burns’s editing room that reads, “It’s complicated.” Even the ...

David Schmidt has spent his entire career at Florentine Films, beginning as an intern and rising within the company to senior producer. He previously worked with Ken Burns on The Roosevelts: An ...

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 ...

Sarah Botstein has for more than two decades produced some of the most widely-watched and acclaimed documentaries on PBS. Her work, in collaboration with directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, includes ...

On the Fourth of July—a day that Ken Burns unsurprisingly refers to as “by far, by far, my favorite holiday”—I accompanied the legendary documentary filmmaker to a naturalization ceremony on the West ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns has examined some of the most defining moments of American history. He's delved into the Civil War, dissected America's response to the Holocaust and chronicled the evolution of ...

There’s a neon sign in Ken Burns’ editing room that reads, “It’s complicated.” Even the prolific documentarian, who spends more time than most exploring the difficult truths of our nation’s history, ...