The making of the latest Ken Burns docuseries took 10 years from start to completion.

Burns directed the project, which is 12 hours long and contains six episodes, with Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt.

Ken Burns, the preeminent documentary filmmaker of his generation, knows how to captivate audiences, whether it's with history or a quip.

When he told hundreds of fans at a Wayne State University auditorium on Sept. 26 that the doors were being locked for a screening of all 12 hours of his latest project, he earned an appreciative laugh.

“You must be so relieved that you don’t have to watch until 7 tomorrow morning,” he said just before the lights went down for an hour of clips from the “The American Revolution” documentary series that premieres on PBS in November.

Burns, who grew up

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