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Jan 5, 2026 - Explore the history of country music – from its roots in ballads, hymns and the blues to its mainstream popularity – and meet the unforgettable characters...

Mar 26, 2025 - Leadership Grant Intro

Oct 31, 2025 - Ken Burns has been telling the story of America through his entire career with genre-defining documentaries on the Civil War, the Vietnam War, and now the...

Grace Bartosh is a research and production associate on the upcoming documentary series The American Revolution. She first joined the Florentine family in the...

Erik has been working for Ken — as he likes to say — “ever since The Civil War.” From intern to Senior Editor and Co-Director, he began his career in...

Jul 21, 2025 - UNUM on the Road spoke with historian Jane Kamensky.

Buddy Squires is an Oscar-nominated filmmaker and Emmy-winning director of photography and a founding member of Florentine Films. His cinematography credits...

Country Music is a 16-hour series that chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form that rose from the experiences of remarkable people in...

The Tenth Inning, a two-part, four-hour documentary film directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, updates our landmark 1994 series, Baseball. Beginning where...

This two-part, four-hour film, tells the story of an American icon whose life-long battle for first class citizenship for all African Americans transcended...

Dayton Duncan is an award-winning writer and documentary filmmaker. He is the author of fourteen books, including Out West: A Journey Through Lewis &...

The War, a seven-part series directed and produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a...

This eight-hour documentary brings to life one of the most indelible figures of the 20th century, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion who captivated...

Samuel Clemens rose from a hardscrabble boyhood in the backwoods of Missouri to become, as Mark Twain, America’s best-known and best-loved author. Considered...

Stephanie Jenkins is a producer and archival producer at Florentine Films on multiple projects in development.  She joined Florentine Films in 2010 as a...

Sarah Botstein has produced some of the most popular and acclaimed documentaries on PBS. Her work with Ken Burns and Lynn Novick includes Jazz (2001), The...

Mariah Doran has been with Florentine Films since 2011 and is currently part of the team producing a six-part series on the American Revolution. She was a...

Jul 21, 2025 - UNUM on the Road spoke with historian Rick Atkinson.

Geoffrey C. Ward was born in Newark, Ohio, in 1940 and grew up on the south side of Chicago and in New Delhi, India. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1962,...

Ken Burns and PBS want to teach us the history of the American Revolution. That’s objectively laudable, but from the opening seconds of his new six-part,...

This two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th Century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work...

Loren David Howard is the Assistant Technical Director for Florentine Films. After starting in February of 2022 as an intern working on The U.S. and the...

Mar 26, 2025 - A Nazi Showcase at the 1936 Berlin Games

This four-hour film series begins where the original Baseball series, which aired more than 15 years before, left off. Like Baseball, The Tenth Inning is again...

K.A. Miille is a multi-talented editor whose work spans from feature documentaries to narratives and commercials. Through her work she uniquely addresses...

Oct 20, 2025 - UNUM on the Road visited Saratoga and Albany.

“No sooner had Northern armies touched Southern soil than this old question, newly guised, sprang from the earth, — What shall be done with slaves?” —...

At the tiny Greenwood School in Putney, Vermont, fifty boys, ages 11 to 17, struggle through myriad learning differences to memorize and recite the Gettysburg...

The Better Angels Society, Inc. (“TBAS”) is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to the preservation of American history, introducing and educating...

Vicky Lee is a research and production associate on the upcoming documentary series, The American Revolution. She has also worked on the biographical series...

Ken Burns and colleagues produce critically acclaimed documentaries for public television.

Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature’s most spectacular locales—from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the...

This film is the biography of the continent’s most magnificent species, an improbable, shaggy beast that nonetheless has found itself at the center of many...

Jan 5, 2026 - Stream full episodes of The Vietnam War, a documentary film series directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. This ten-part, 18-hour documentary film series...

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s three-part, six-hour documentary series, HEMINGWAY, examines the visionary work and turbulent life of one of the greatest and...

Producer Julie Coffman has spent the last 15 years working with Ewers Brothers Productions, where she has produced and co-produced numerous documentary films,...

For 25 years, Salimah El-Amin has worked on numerous award-winning films and television programs, including most recently as a co-producer on the 2021 PBS...

Frank Lloyd Wright tells the story of the greatest of all American architects. Wright was an authentic American genius, a man who believed he was destined to...

Nov 18, 2025 - The American Revolution, a landmark documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, premieres Nov. 16, 2025.

Mar 31, 2020 - The epic PBS production, free to stream while you quarantine, is an unexpected fashion goldmine, tracing the connections between sport and style.

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park. They spent...

Baseball is a nine-part series that examines nearly 200 years of American history through the prism of our national pastime. Americans have played baseball in...

This two-part, four-hour film takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most...

Oct 28, 2025 - The filmmakers visited Philadelphia to promote The American Revolution.

Jul 21, 2025 - For UNUM 250, Ken Burns stops at Charleston.

“The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation…  We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.” – HENRY DAVID THOREAU He has been called the...

Oct 14, 2023 - Scholars and writers on how Ernest Hemingway approached masculinity in his works.

Tim McAleer is the producer on Leonardo da Vinci. He joined Florentine Films in 2015 during postproduction on Jackie Robinson, and later served as an...

Oct 20, 2025 - UNUM on the Road visited SoHo in New York City.

This portrait of the United States Congress explores the history and promise of one of the country’s most important and least understood institutions. It...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball’s color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. A fierce integrationist,...

Vanessa González-Block is a co-producer on Skiff Mountain Films’ upcoming documentary, Crime and Punishment In America. She was an associate producer on...

Nov 6, 2025 - Stonewall Pioneer Mark Segal slams Ken Burns’ new PBS documentary, ‘The American Revolution,’ for using age-old stereotypes.

Jul 21, 2025 - UNUM on the Road visited Monticello.

This three-part, six-hour series will chronicle the life and times of Lyndon B. Johnson, one of the most capable, colorful, and controversial men ever to...

Nov 11, 2025 - KEN BURNS, the producer and director of numerous film series, including Vietnam, The Roosevelts, and The War, founded his own documentary film company,...

Cody started as an intern during her senior year of college in the Fall 2022 on The American Buffalo. She then went on to graduate Cum Laude from Keene State...

Aug 24, 2022 - We asked viewers to share their experiences during the events of the Vietnam War era. The response was thousands of videos, photographs, and short stories....

Mar 26, 2025 - The Dust Bowl: An Environmental Catastrophe

He was one of the best-known men of the 20th Century, a three-time heavyweight boxing champion who captivated millions of fans throughout the world with his...

This four-hour documentary film series chronicles the decade-long, man-made ecological disaster known as “The Dust Bowl,” which affected 100 million acres of...

Mar 27, 2025 - Introduction to Baseball

Apr 23, 2024 - Photo Credit: Steve Holmes (2023)

For more than two decades, Mike Welt has been writing and producing historical documentaries on topics ranging from jazz to early aviation and the Space...

Dec 28, 2025

Jul 21, 2025 - UNUM on the Road visited Lexington and Concord.

In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epicstory of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. THEVIETNAM WAR features...

“It is a fantastic commentary on the inhumanity of our times that for thousands and thousands of people a piece of paper with a stamp on it is the difference...

Burns and co-director Sarah Botstein discuss their six-part, 10-year labor of love, which finally makes it to PBS on November 16.

Nov 11, 2025 - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz, The Roosevelts, and others: a richly...

Country Music chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form that rose from the experiences of remarkable people in distinctive regions of our...

David Schmidt is the producer and co-director, along with Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein, of The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour series premiering on...

The Civil War is a nine-part series that explores the most important conflict in our nation’s history. It saw the end of slavery, and was the watershed of a...

Jul 21, 2025 - UNUM on the Road visited Yorktown.

Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature’s most spectacular locales— from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon,...

Nov 14, 2025 - 35 years after his breakthrough production of 'The Civil War,' Ken Burns brings the Revolutionary War to life in a 12-hour, six-night documentary epic, a...

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to...

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Nov 5, 2025 - “​​I vowed after ‘The Civil War’ not to do any more war films,” says the master documentarian. “It hurt too much.” Lucky for us, he couldn’t...

Hannah recently joined Florentine Films as a production assistant on Leonardo da Vinci, where she has since been discovering her love for archival research....

Jan 5, 2026 - Ken Burns' film captures the physical majesty of this greatest of all achievements of the industrial age. Full film now streaming.

Nov 14, 2025 - Ken Burns discusses his new documentary series “The American Revolution.”

Mar 26, 2025 - The West—Rain Season

Mar 26, 2025 - The Lincoln Memorial

Caroline Bliss is a new addition to Florentine Films, working as an apprentice editor on Leonardo da Vinci. She received her BA in Film Studies at Wesleyan...

Much has changed in 250 years, but Ken Burns' encyclopedic study of 'The American Revolution' finds a rallying cry in rejecting despots —then...

The West, a nine-part series, chronicles the turbulent history of one of the most extraordinary landscapes on earth – a mythic landscape, simultaneously...

The West, a nine-part, 12-hour documentary film series, chronicles the turbulent history of the American West—a mythic landscape filled with stories of both...

Thomas Jefferson is a two-part portrait of one of the most fascinating and complicated figures ever to walk across America’s public stage – our enigmatic...

This two-part, four-hour documentary explores the revolutionary life of one of the 18th Century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work...

Dec 13, 2024 - He was senior picture editor at Encyclopedia Britannica in Chicago during the mid-1960s, founding editor of Audience magazine from 1970 to 1973, and managing...

For more than 135 years the Statue of Liberty has been a symbol of hope and refuge for generations of immigrants. In interviews with Americans from all walks...

Cancer is built into us: the genes that unmoor normal cell division are not foreign to our bodies but rather mutated, distorted versions of the very genes that...

This two-part, four-hour film tells the story of one of the most important expeditions in American history. Sent by President Thomas Jefferson in 1804 to find...