PBS announced RECONSTRUCTION: AMERICA AFTER THE CIVIL WAR (w.t.), a new four-hour documentary executive produced and hosted by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., will premiere next spring on PBS stations ...

THE CIVIL WAR has averaged about 150 percent more viewers than PBS's other primetime programs. PBS estimates that 27 million people have tuned in for at least part of the series.

%embed2% Next week PBS' American Experience will show a Death & the Civil War, a new documentary by filmmaker Ric Burns based on historian (and Harvard president) Drew Gilpin Faust's awesome 2008 ...

PASADENA, Calif.—After basking in the ratings and adulation surrounding England's Downtown Abbey, PBS is coming back across the pond for its next big historical drama, an exploration of a ...

The six-episode series hails from Saw Bone Films and Scott Free. By Mikey O'Connell Paula Kerger Portrait Exec Suite - P 2012 A popular destination for U.K. imports, PBS announced Monday that it ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns’ documentary “The Civil War” in 1990 drew an estimated audience of 40 million viewers, making it the most-watched program in PBS history.

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. To mark the occasion, PBS is airing a remastered edition of Ken Burns ...

Mercy Street, the six-part PBS miniseries launching Sunday on KET, isn’t so much about the Civil War itself but about the toll that hatred and prejudice invariably take on individual lives.

With the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War fast approaching, it probably won't come as a surprise that PBS has plans to rerun Ken Burns' acclaimed series on the War Between the States.

PBS debuts "Death and the Civil War." TV tweet of the day so far. TV Tuesday.

PBS. Airing over a span of five nights during late September in 1990, Ken Burns’ “The Civil War” remains, to this day, the only documentary that claims to explain the entirety of the war ...

In his more than 30 years as a filmmaker, Ken Burns has explored some of the most difficult chapters of the American experience. With such works as "The Civil War" (1990), "The War" (2007), and ...