Burns said that working on his 1994 “Baseball” documentary only ... Ken Burns produces documentary on jazz Share this: Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) ...

Ken Burns’ 18-hour history of jazz is the best American documentary film I have ever seen. Period. It is the culmination of Burns’ “trilogy on race” that began with “The Civil War” in ...

Ken Burns has spent the past six years making "Jazz," an epic 10-part documentary airing on PBS next month that explores the American experience through the ingenious American music that expresses ...

In a filmed interview for a documentary history of our national pastime we made several years ago, the writer and essayist Gerald Early told us that "when they study our civilization two thousand ...

Jazz players are their true heirs in the way that composition and improvisation merge in their creativity. ... Read a note from Ken Burns on making the film. Explore. Roots of Jazz.

A brief look back at the Battle of Bunker Hill from Ken Burns looks ahead to his upcoming six-part documentary.

Ken Burns has spent nearly a decade unpacking the complicated, violent and world-changing story of the American Revolution, a ...

Ken Burns on his new film, 'The U.S. and the Holocaust" Alvin ... Even the happy history of baseball and jazz—the topics of two other Burns films—were made more complex by racial bigotry and ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns received a massive honor in Philadelphia Tuesday night. Burns, 71, got the 36th annual Liberty Medal at the National Constitution Center in Old City.