Andy's Film Blog

As told through the eyes of U.S. servicemen and Vietnamese who fought the war on both sides, Ken Burns documentary is an exhaustive look ...

Prominent Massachusetts Methodists Waitstill and Martha Sharp risk their lives and ultimately sacrifice their marriage and much of their ...

A year in the life of severely learning disabled students at the specialized Greenwood School in Putney, Vermont who are required to reci...

The story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, the sharecropper's son from Cairo, Georgia who became a standout athlete at UCLA and a Negro Le...

Directed by Barak Goodman, drawn from the book by Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee (who appears throughout the film), but billed prominently unde...

Due to the sheer magnitude of the greatest and bloodiest conflict in history, Ken Burns decided to focus his series documenting World War...

Based on a book by Geoffrey C. Ward, an account of the life of Jack Johnson, the brazen pugilist who, while always living life on his own...

In 1903, after accepting a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco with associate Sewell Crocker and his pit bull ...

Using his upbringing in Hannibal, Missouri and experiences as both a riverboat captain and gold miner as resources for The Adventures of ...

A sweeping look at Jazz, a true American art form, detailing a sequential history of the medium and focusing on, among many others talent...

The lives, exploits, heartaches, and achievements of Theodore Roosevelt, his fifth cousin Franklin, and his wife Eleanor (also Teddy’s ni...

The story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, their friendship, and tireless, decades long struggle for women's suffrage,...

Ken Burns profiles the celebrated and world renowned architect who revolutionized the form with designs ranging from Fallingwater, his ho...

Glacier National Park, Montana Beginning with John Muir's dream of seeing his beloved Yosemite protected, continuing with Theodore ...

Ken Burns documentary on U.S. Army Officers Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and the Corps of Discovery's grueling, prolonged, and mo...

The life of the famed statesman, inventor, writer, founder of the University of Virginia, and Third President of the United States is doc...

Ken Burns'  Empire of the Air  follows the lives of Lee de Forest, Edwin Armstrong, and David Sarnoff, three men who were responsible...

"The Civil War was fought in 10,000 places. From Valverde, New Mexico and Tullahaoma, Tennessee to St. Albans, Vermont and Fernandin...

Thomas Hart Benton was an American painter whose personality was as large and robust as the many murals he created throughout his lifetim...

Ken Burns presents the history of our federal representative body, lauding its successes and exposes its weaknesses. Covering 200 years o...