Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it.

The film vividly embraces the entire sweep of the war: the complex causes and lasting effects ... In the words of Ken Burns, "the Civil War was history running on all cylinders.

It could only be documentary filmmaker Ken Burns ... the true scope of the conflict, which Burns sees as not just a war for independence, but a civil war that became a world war.

(JTA) — One of the first people introduced in Ken ... Burns told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Burns is the foremost documentarian of American history, with iconic works such as “The Civil ...

Ken Burns and his team typically tackle expansive topics: The Civil War. National Parks. Baseball. Country music. But sometimes he does embrace singular historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson ...

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns ... the sun—which often caused oppressive heat—but ...

Ken Burns is making a history-based fundraising ... In a Wednesday fundraising email from Harris’s campaign that was signed ...

The Vietnam War directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, this is the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Source: Supplied In this special episode, Fiona and Nick ...