In Ken Burns’s newest documentary, the war for independence was also a civil war. Amid a bitter fight over history, its ...

A reporter and a photographer have embarked on a cross-country journey into the bedrooms of all the children lost to school ...

German-born Howard Triest, who died in 2016 at age 93, worked as a translator during the Nuremberg war crimes trials held ...

Ken Burns' latest work takes us back to a moment of great dissension and division, a moment in which Americans raged against ...

The PBS documentary, by filmmaker Ken Burns, tells an American origin story to bring a diverse nation together, rather than ...

Documentary makers Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari share what they learned after their six-year foray into the world of ...

The series features interviews with historians, illustrations of key events, re-enactors depicting warfare and life in the ...

Meyerowitz's path to becoming a leading figure in 20th century photography began with a sudden, decisive moment. Born in New York City in 1938, he was working as an advertising art director when he ...

Directors Zack Canepari and Jessica Dimmock discuss their new documentary on HBO, "Thoughts & Prayers: How to Survive an ...

Back in 1990, Ken Burns made his reputation with "The Civil War," a sprawling, mutlipart documentary that caused a sensation, set a standard and sealed the style he's applied to ...

A new war documentary, Love+War, is now available to stream on Disney+. The film, directed and produced by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, tells the story of photojournalist Lynsey Addario ...

"Reflections in Black" was the first single-volume work to showcase images of leading Black photographers. NPR's Michel Martin visits author Deborah Willis to discuss a new expanded issue.