Ken Burns' America

This witty but informative documentary on the first cross-continental automobile trip gets a simple but serviceable presentation for its release on DVD. Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip has been transferred to disc in its original full-frame aspect ratio of ...

Originally produced in the mid-'80s, Ken Burns' America: Huey Long comes to DVD from PBS. Presented with a black-and-white full-frame transfer and Dolby Digital Mono soundtrack. Contains the featurettes Ken Burns: Making History and A Conversation With Ken Burns.

Ken Burns' America: Thomas Hart Benton comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that preserves the original broadcast aspect ratio of 1.33:1. The English soundtrack is closed-captioned. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, but those with an ...

Unlike journalists, historians enjoy the advantage of time, which translates into perspective. Which is why New York: A Documentary Film -- Ric Burns's marvelously informed 14-hour PBS miniseries -- is both richly satisfying and inevitably incomplete. Like his elder brother ...

This is as fine a collection of material devoted to a single historical subject as A&E Home Video or anyone else (apart from the producers of those Ken Burns specials) has yet issued on DVD. The two-disc set, in a ...

This first episode in filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives' epic nine-part series focuses on the various peoples who inhabited or desired the lands of the West prior to 1806. From the natives whose identity and culture were continuous with ...