More than half a millennium after his death, Leonardo da Vinci is still one of the most well-known artists in the world. The rare artist who, when you name some of his most iconic paintings, most ...

The two-part, four-hour documentary on Leonardo da Vinci will air on WHYY Channel 12 on Nov. 18 and 19 at 8 p.m. Documentarians David McMahon and Sarah Burns talked to students at WHYY's Media Labs ...

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 ...

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 trace ...

Two-part documentary premiering Monday centers on Ken Burns’ first non-American subject, the painter of the ‘Mona Lisa’ and ‘The Last Supper.’ The doc acknowledges its subject’s homosexuality but ...

Ken Burns documentaries are their own category. There are documentaries, and then there are Ken Burns documentaries. Burns' latest, with Sarah Burns and David McMahon, "Leonardo da Vinci" (PBS), ...

The two-part, four-hour PBS documentary is filmmaker Ken Burns’ first project not exploring an American subject. It also features a musical score by Caroline Shaw, another new direction for Burns.

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 and ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks provide unique insight into his mind, knowledge and discoveries. More than 4,000 pages of Leonardo da Vinci’s notebooks remain. Over his lifetime, he made meticulous ...

Artist, scientist, engineer, philosopher — Leonardo da Vinci did a bit of everything. Artist, scientist, engineer and philosopher — titles that only scratch the surface of what 15th century Italian ...