An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...

Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on the ...

The film is a comprehensive and definitive history of the American Civil War, and the recipient of 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmys and two Grammys. Heralded as an ...

The American Civil War was arguably one of the most devastating conflicts in the history of the United States. Fought over slavery, it divided families and communities and, of course, the nation.

In Les Damnés, Roberto Minervini plunges into the heart of the winter of 1862, where American soldiers in the midst of the ...

During the Civil War, the young United States dealt with an unprecedented and overwhelming number of dead. The Ric Burns film is based on the book "This Republic of Suffering" by Harvard President ...

A century and a half ago, hundreds of runaway enslaved people would trek to Camp Stanton, a Union camp named after Edward Stanton, the U.S. Secretary of War for much of the Civil War. Get any of ...

It’s not merely that our current era doesn’t compare to the Civil War; it’s that it doesn’t compare to much else, either. “This is the most fraught time, I think, in the history of our ...

Nobody understands the history of American warfare better than Ken Burns. Like the "Civil War" documentary before it, this multi-part series from PBS is both gripping and illuminating, explaining ...