THE ROOSEVELTS: AN INTIMATE HISTORY, a new documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns, chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential ...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — For 30 years, Ken Burns has found the Roosevelt family "irresistible." Various members of the political dynasty have popped up in the filmmaker's projects on America's ...

CHAUTAUQUA – Great leaders are often defined by even greater adversity. Such was the theme of Ken Burns’ moving documentary on the Roosevelts, shown in excerpts Friday at the Chautauqua Institution ...

This Sept. 28, 2023 photo shows William E. Leuchtenburg, a leading scholar of Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Depression. (Jean Anne Leuchtenburg via AP) (Uncredited) NEW YORK – William E.

Sarah Botstein has for more than two decades produced some of the most widely-watched and acclaimed documentaries on PBS. Her work, in collaboration with directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, includes ...

David McMahon has been making award-winning documentary films for more than a decade. With Ken Burns and Sarah Burns, he wrote, directed and produced The Central Park Five, a two-hour film about the ...

One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years. By Michael S. Rosenwald Ken Burns was ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. On Tuesday, September 16, 2014, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History partnered with WETA television and the National Endowment ...

NEW YORK (AP) — William E. Leuchtenburg, a prize-winning historian widely admired for his authoritative writings on the U.S. presidency and as the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New ...