Ken Burns Documentaries & Audio Books

The Vietnam War is a ten-part, 18-hour documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick chronicling the history of the Vietnam War and encompassing a scope of viewpoints, experiences, and stories from U.S. Veterans to Vietnamese civilians.

The companion volume to the 12-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.

The Civil War defined us as what we are, and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things.

The companion volume to the forthcoming PBS series "The War" chronicles the story of World War II captured in the hearts and minds, words and deeds of those who made history at its most essential level: on the battlefields and on the homefront.

Here are the stories of the extraordinary men and women who made the music: Louis Armstrong, the fatherless waif whose unrivaled genius...

Ken Burns, co-director and author Sarah Burns, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer, who covered the case and is interviewed in the film, and the exonerated, including Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise.

From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart - the companion volume to the major multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.

The fascinating life of storyteller and humorist Mark Twain is revealed in this one-man performance...

Ken Burns spoke at a National Press Club luncheon about his documentary series, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, in which he chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt.

In 1903 there were only 150 miles of paved roads in the entire nation and most people had never seen a "horseless buggy"...