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 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 works, is slated to come out in 2025. While Burns encountered pockets ...

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 has been making documentaries. Over the years, he's created 36 documentary series for PBS, all of them about American history, from "The Civil War," "Baseball" and "Jazz," to ...

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.

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

Part, Four-Hour Film Traces the Near Demise – and Ultimate Return – of the U.S. National Mammal, While Examining the Species’ ...

Although the new PBS documentary series The Vietnam War required more than a decade of production and clocks in at a healthy 18 hours, the filmmakers who made it are being criticized for not being ...

Elisha Hunt Rhodes was a Civil War officer from a Cranston family (Rhodes on the Pawtuxet) who rose from private to the rank of colonel. His detailed diary became a major source for documentary editor ...