To most Americans, Benjamin Franklin is an institution. But to Ken Burns, the Founding Father was as modern as it gets — just 200 years too soon. Franklin is the subject of the Oscar-nominated ...

Benjamin Franklin's life and historical impact as a businessman, writer, scientist and diplomat is the focus of a new project by award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns. "Benjamin Franklin" will delve into ...

Mar. 30—Ken Burns has built a niche for himself in documentary filmmaking. He's developed a signature style in presentation, but it's the deep dive he takes into each subject that separates his work.

But for more than two centuries, Franklin and the founders have been treated as something beyond mortals. Heralded as the “most famous American in the world,” even before the Revolution, Franklin is ...

Tennessee lawmakers banned critical race theory in K-12 schools in 2021 and passed a similar ban for colleges in 2022. This is part of a backlash to conversations and textbooks covering systemic ...

From his inventions to his revolutionary politics, Benjamin Franklin figured large in 18th century American history. Get to know the man better through a two-part documentary from director and ...

Ken Burns explores the revolutionary life of Benjamin Franklin. Ken Burns’s four-hour documentary, Benjamin Franklin, explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential ...

What this country could use is another Benjamin Franklin, says actor Mandy Patinkin. While voicing the statesman for a PBS special, “Benjamin Franklin,” Patinkin saw how he weighed sides of an issue ...

Benjamin Franklin (8 p.m., PBS NC) - We get the first part of Ken Burns’ two-night, four-hour documentary on Benjamin Franklin. The documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th ...

Ken Burns has been making the same film over and over again for 40 years. His subjects may span centuries and cross cultural divides, but the filmmaker says each of his nearly 40 documentaries ponders ...

The second part of “Benjamin Franklin,” a film by Ken Burns, will air at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 5, on PBS. The local PBS station is WITF. The four-hour documentary, PBS said, “explores the ...