Documentarian Ken Burns and his team discuss their new series exploring the country’s founding and war for independence on this 250th anniversary.

Burns and "The American Revolution" co-director David Schmidt walk in Colonial Williamsburg. Burns says he does not take his ...

Ken Burns on why the American Revolution was a "big deal in world history" 01:45. The American Revolution was one of the most ...

As America enters the 250th year since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, director Ken Burns tells John ...

The Soldier and the Revolutionary War” opened June 7 on the Army’s 250th birthday. It has artifacts never before displayed ...

Through Ken Burns' lens, history is never a thing of the past but rather an echo of whatever we are going through in modern times. His latest subject — the American Revolutionary War — is no ...

KEN BURNS: No, we'd been fighting for a year and a quarter. Lexington and Concord are as- is, is in April of '75 there- this is a civil war that's going on. More than likely you might be a loyalist.

Documentary historian Ken Burns contended that major events and legislative efforts throughout U.S. history have always experienced a level a pushback.

Ken Burns at a June 4 panel in Austin (photo by Jay Godwin / Courtesy of LBJ Library) The story of the American Revolution isn’t just one of political revolution or tax avoidance.