Award-winning documentary-maker Ken Burns tells Katty Kay about his unique approach to chronicling history, from the Civil ...

Ken Burns has been making documentary films ... The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain; Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson; The War; The ...

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Illustration by E. W. Kemble, from first edition of 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,' 1884. [Editor’s Note, introducing the scene: Halfway through their trip down the river in The Adventures of ...

The 70 th birthday of Mark Twain was a lavish affair held at Delmonico’s restaurant in New York City. In introducing Twain, friend William Dean Howells said, “Now, ladies and gentlemen ...

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If you watched all of Ken Burns’ documentaries back to back ... founder of the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. “The idea for the country music documentary was born ...

WILLIAMSBURG — On March 25, award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns offered the Historic Triangle a sneak peek at his newest ...

He was the subject of a Ken Burns documentary on PBS last year ... In fact, if this new rush of celebrityhood grows any more intense, Mark Twain may want to eat the words he aimed at another ...

Ahead of his upcoming PBS documentary, The American Revolution, acclaimed film-maker Ken Burns ... US author Mark Twain: "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does often rhyme." Burns doesn ...

Ken Burns is such a fixture of America’s cultural ... No, says Burns, before referencing the Mark Twain-attributed line about history not repeating, but rhyming. “We too often, particularly ...