Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it.

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 ...

“The story of America is improvisation,” the American filmmaker Ken Burns told me back in 2001 ... audience—and set a template in the process. Since then, Burns has produced films about topics ranging ...

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns talks with The Dallas Morning News ... We’ve accepted the violence of the Civil War, the violence of World War I and II and Vietnam and Korea.