In the opening chapter of Kings and Generals' Civil War series, we explore the deep-rooted causes behind America’s bloodiest ...

Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns once called the Civil War "the most important event in American history," because ...

In 'Behind the Lines', a powerful new documentary narrated by Annette Bening, selections from the Center for American War ...

Richard Kuehl explores the contemporary social critique in two 2024 films: the biopic Lee, and Alex Garland's Civil War.

More than four decades after Guatemalan soldiers and paramilitaries raped Indigenous women amid their efforts to crush an ...

Bates helped establish the Nicodemus Historical Society in 1986. The significance of Nicodemus was becoming recognized ...

In a Damascus firehouse, former regime firefighters work side by side with the White Helmets. They were on opposite sides of Syria's war, and struggle with prejudices & fears -- as they work together ...

George W. Blake, a veteran who participated in the film, says he chose to share his story in order to work through what ...

The documentary was selected by Ken Burns to ... unbearable — sometimes with dramatic consequences. In 1863, a Civil War soldier known as “John N.” wrote a notably candid letter to President ...