Filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady will also receive awards at the November ceremony hosted by Aasif Mandvi ...

The 10th annual Critics Choice Documentary Awards are hitting New York, and this year Ken Burns will receive the Critics ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns called the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting shortsighted, warning that the cuts will be catastrophic for new filmmakers and rural communities. He calls it a ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

I think the first film that I made and was broadcast by PBS in the early '80s called "Brooklyn Bridge," had money from CPB and from various CPB programs. And so there's a kind of pall that we feel.

Filmmaker Ken Burns called the elimination of federal funding for public broadcasting shortsighted, warning that the cuts will be catastrophic for new filmmakers and rural communities. He calls it ...

Filmmaker Ken Burns tells NPR's Michel Martin about the role that federal funding has played in his documentary work and the potential impact of the loss of that funding on children's programming.

Burns first became a figure of note in 1981, when his feature-length nonfiction film, Brooklyn Bridge, received an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.