Ken Burns Says U.S. Has 3 Viruses: COVID-19, White Supremacy And Misinformation

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Filmmaker Ken Burns says America is "defined as much by our challenges and the dark moments as we are by our successes." You can explore U.S. history in scenes selected from more than 40 documentaries at Burns

Documentarian Ken Burns believed there were three major crises in the nation’s past: The Civil War, the Depression and World War II. Now, he says, we are living through the fourth.

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Documentarian Ken Burns believed there were three major crises in the nation’s past: The Civil War, the Depression and World War II. Now, he says, we are living through the fourth.