Directors Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, and David McMahon tell IndieWire about the visual tricks that opened up the mind of Leonardo Da Vinci in their two-part PBS documentary series. Lots of folks ...

He also happens to be exactly the kind of posthumously appreciated figure about which Ken Burns has spent his career ... one of the documentary’s interview subjects, notes in the second episode ...

When you get an interview, you’ll need to be brilliant in how you show up and proceed through the process—and you’ll need to know good interview etiquette to succeed. But what is most ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Ken Burns, along with his daughter Sarah Burns and son-in-law David McMahon (2012's "The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding") have gone back 500 years to produce this ...

Ken Burns’ latest documentary is his first one exploring a non-American subject, telling the story of the life, achievements and influence of Leonardo da Vinci. According to NPR, The documentary which ...

Ken Burns and his team typically tackle expansive topics: The Civil War. National Parks. Baseball. Country music. But sometimes he does embrace singular historical figures such as Thomas Jefferson ...

Ken Burns named his company Florentine Films because one of his partners was from Florence — the one in Northampton, Mass., not the one in Tuscany. But it’s certainly fitting to see that ...

At bottom, a young woman waves goodbye to the group. Charles Burns loves a doomed romance. This has been true throughout his career as a graphic novelist, and it remains so in his remarkable new ...

One of the greatest minds in history, Leonardo da Vinci, is the subject of one of the greatest documentarians, Ken Burns, in a brand new PBS original documentary. Aptly titled Leonardo Da Vinci, the ...

Sarah Burns and David McMahon might have saved time for a few deeper dives if they had simply cut the superfluous idolatry from too many of their talking-head interview subjects. These figures ...