Ken Burns
  • Burns' 'Prohibition' looks at the fruits of forbidding alcohol

    ...Sunday through Tuesday, Oct. 2-4, on PBS (check local listings), "Prohibition," from acclaimed filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick -- who most recently teamed up for "'The War" -- looks at the forces that brought about the National......

  • 'Prohibition'

    Premiering on home video the same week it makes its debut on PBS, the latest documentary miniseries from Ken Burns - the celebrated mentor of "The Civil War" and "Baseball" - and his frequent collaborator Lynn Novick examines......

  • Burns' 'The Tenth Inning' hits it out of the park on PBS

    ...backward, mitt outstretched to catch a pop-up, infuses baseball with eternal optimism. "Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns ," the 18.5-hour 1994 documentary , beautifully and exhaustively captured the subject -- up to that point......

  • 'Baseball: The Tenth Inning'

    Rarely does an existing documentary get an update, but genre titan Ken Burns has done that - in collaboration with filmmaking partner Lynn Novick - by adding an additional chapter to his ode to the sport......

  • Ken Burns surveys splendor of our 'National Parks' for PBS

    ...trips can find year-round pleasure at some of the country's crown jewels: its national parks. Documentarian Ken Burns chronicles the sprawling, often politically charged history of how those preservation areas came into being in "The......

  • TV Critics Love 'The Wire,' 'Mad Men'

    ...nominees for program of the year are Ken Burns ' epic PBS documentary...ABC) "Mad Men" (AMC) "Ken Burns' The War" (PBS) "The Wire...Austen Collection" (PBS) "Ken Burns' The War" (PBS) "A Raisin......

  • TV Review: 'The War'

    Ken Burns has built his considerable reputation as a teller of uniquely American stories. World War II is not such a story......

  • 'Wordplay'

    ...letters. We get interviews with puzzle addicts Bill Clinton , Mike Mussina , Jon Stewart and Ken Burns . The genial charm of Times puzzle editor Will Shortz, who talked Indiana University into letting him major......

  • Nerds, Celebrities Puzzle Over 'Wordplay'

    ...Will Shortz, Bob Dole, New York Yankees pitcher Mike Mussina , the Indigo Girls, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and "The Daily Show" host Jon Stewart , who famously proposed to his fiancee via crossword. The film......