The U.S. built 17. American industry provided almost two-thirds of all the Allied military equipment produced during the war: 297,000 aircraft, 193,000 artillery pieces, 86,000 tanks and two ...

The acclaimed filmmaker behind the PBS documentary on the 15th century Italian artist and intellectual calls Leonardo da ...

The Civil War, an epic nine-episode series by the award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and produced in conjunction with WETA, Washington, D.C., first aired in September of 1990 to an ...

Ken Burns, whose five decades of filmmaking have ... His 6-part, 12-hour Revolutionary War project, already six years in the ...

This week, senior reporter Eileen Kinsella speaks to documentarian Ken Burns about his first foray outside of American ...

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 ...

Ken Burns added: "He's an anatomist, and he's a botanist, and he's interested in flight, and he's a sculptor, and he's a painter, and he's an artist, and he's all of those. The reason why it's such a ...

"The Civil War was the most important event in American history, the crossroads of our being,” says documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, whose 1990 The Civil War won 40 major television and film honors.