There are other helpful touches. If you load more than one clip into an iMovie project, for instance, it weaves them together with smooth transitions, and if you add photos, iMovie automatically adds movement to them via the “Ken Burns” panning effect.

The G2 Gallery has begun a weekly screening of Ken Burns’s six-part documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The screenings provide a deeper understanding from a historical perspective of the people and places that shaped America’s national...

McCullough about the Brooklyn Bridge," said Burns, adding that he accepted it with some hesitation. "I read it in one sitting. Then I walked out in my pajamas and told my film partners, 'We're doing a story on the Brooklyn Bridge.'" View full sizeStaff...

It's especially timely because of the public's renewed fascination with the Roaring 20s, including such popular productions as HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," the PBS documentary "Prohibition" by Ken Burns, Woody Allen's Oscar-nominated "Midnight in Paris,"...

If left-handed people comprise only 10% of the population, why were 50% of the Beatles left-handed (Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr)? And lefties are disproportionate in categories like execs (Jeffrey Katzenberg, Brad Grey, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Gates),...

Nelson first became aware of the existence of the league in the 1990s, when he was commissioned to do a painting about it while still a student at the Pratt Institute. Doing research lead him to the Ken Burns documentary about baseball, particularly...