Ken Burns, a documentary filmmaker and director whose work is often published on PBS, criticized Congress’s elimination of $1.1 billion of federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting ...

After the Senate passed Donald Trump‘s federal federal funding cuts to public media, Ken Burns worries for the future of documentary filmmaking. The 2x Oscar-nominated documentarian expressed his ...

Renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns has spoken out about President Donald Trump‘s plans to cut federal funding for PBS, calling the proposal “shortsighted.” Burns, whose upcoming six-part series ...

Burns’s 12-hour documentary about our national origin story is landing in the middle of a culture war. Yes, it’s complicated.

Filmmaker Ken Burns called the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting shortsighted, warning that the cuts will be catastrophic for new filmmakers and rural communities. He calls it a ...

The Revolution will be televised. For now. The American Revolution —a six-part documentary series about the nation’s founding ...

Morgan Barnaby / OPB As Congress prepares to decide on the future of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, prolific documentary filmmaker Ken Burns called the move “incredibly shortsighted” at a ...

Congress is moving toward revoking a billion dollars in already approved funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the entity that steers funds to public media stations. William Brangham ...