Newark, NJ – September 17, 2025 – The filmmaker Ken Burns today will join 1,000-plus students from across the state of New Jersey to commemorate Constitution Day and to discuss the importance of New ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns writes about the Founding Fathers' notion of citizenship and how democracy demands participation and engagement.

Ken Burns has done it again. This time, the gifted filmmaker is bringing the American Revolution to the public’s attention. While we prepare to relive our birth moment over six evenings of television, ...

There’s a neon sign in Ken Burns’s 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, ...

Ken Burns revolutionized the way historical documentaries were made before the internet was even a common term, so it’s hardly a shock he’d eventually tackle America’s fight for independence in his ...

Syndicated columnist Rich Lowry argued that documentarian Ken Burns is wrong to highlight the Iroquois Indians’ influence on the Constitution, calling it “romanticized history” not based on ...

Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...

Ken Burns has done it again. This time, the gifted filmmaker is bringing the American Revolution to the public’s attention. While we prepare to relive our birth moment over six evenings of television, ...