As the United States prepares to mark 250 years since its founding, Ken Burns is urging viewers to revisit that moment anew. The award-winning documentarian — whose work has chronicled everything from ...

Candid Records restores Mingus At Monterey from original mono tapes, delivering improved sound and pressing quality over earlier, collectible editions. Legendary bassist, composer, and bandleader ...

Award-winning filmmaker and historian Ken Burns of Walpole played the role of cleanup hitter Friday, making the final argument in New Hampshire’s bid to convince the Democratic National Committee (DNC ...

Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life. In an interview with “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, the filmmaker challenged how the nation ...

Documentarian Ken Burns told NBC's "Meet the Press" that on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, he believes Americans are worried about the country lasting another ten years. KEN ...

BRINGING BEFORE THE DNC RULES AND BYLAWS COMMITTEE. KEN BURNS, THE WORLD RENOWNED DOCUMENTARIAN WHO LIVES IN WALPOLE, NEW HAMPSHIRE, IS PROVIDING THE CLOSING ARGUMENT FOR NEW HAMPSHIRE’S FIRST IN THE ...

As part of the Jan. 13 program, Ken Burns encouraged audience members to reflect on the uncertainty the country's founders faced in trying to create and defend the American experiment. The U.S. War ...

The legacies of bassist Charles Mingus, who died in 1979 at 56 years old, and drummer Art Blakey, who died in 1990 at 71, extend well beyond virtuosity on their chosen instruments. They each, in ...

I’m Mark Rapp, and this is Rapp on Jazz. Few figures in jazz history embody both power and poetry quite like Charles Mingus. A master bassist, pianist, bandleader, and composer, Mingus was larger than ...

Ken Burns agreed to let Apple use his photo panning style in iMovie for $1 million worth of equipment. Steve Jobs proposed naming the Mac feature after Burns' filmmaking technique, and he initially ...

Few documentary films have the natural authority of a Ken Burns production. The narrator of his works, Peter Coyote, is as close as we have today to "the voice of God," the phrase once associated with ...