— Four-Hour Film Explores the United States’ Emergence from the Civil War and Slavery, and the Thwarted Vision for an Interracial Democracy that Still Impacts the Country More Than 150 Years ...

The Civil War is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV ...

Kerger has long teased an American drama series, since Downton Abbey reinvigorated PBS’ scripted lineup — and its ratings — five years ago. Dubbed “Mansion House” and “Civil War E.R ...

This summer proved to Americans yet again that the Civil War, which officially ended 150 years ago, has never really gone away. The Charleston, S.C., church shooting that killed nine in June ...

This is not your typical Civil War epic. There are no bloody battles ... racial and gender-based tensions still come to a head in PBS' new historical drama Mercy Street (premiering Sunday ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War and the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. To mark the occasion, PBS is airing a remastered edition of Ken Burns ...

More recent, Ken Burns’ influential and enormously successful 1990 PBS documentary “The Civil War” helped reshape people’s perceptions of the war, presenting slavery as the war’s root cause.

Next week PBS' American Experience will show a Death & the Civil War, a new documentary by filmmaker Ric Burns based on historian (and Harvard president) Drew Gilpin Faust's awesome 2008 book This ...

Josh Radnor, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Gary Cole and Cherry Jones are among the eclectic cast of new Civil War drama Mercy Street – the first American drama to air on PBS in more than a decade.

“The Civil War”’s premiere became the most-watched PBS program at the time, with the nine-episode series carrying a total running time of 11 hours, and to this day it remains one of the most ...

Northwest Indiana’s Civil War story plays a prominent role in the second part of a new documentary airing Thursday night on all Hoosier PBS stations. Part II of “Hoosiers: The Story of Indiana ...