LOS ANGELES - Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recently compared current issues to "three great crises" of the past in America: the Civil War, the Great Depression and World War II. Burns, an ...
Ken Burns comes full circle when he frames the Revolutionary War as a civil war. “The war grew out of a multitude of grievances lodged against the British parliament by British subjects living an ...
Award-winning documentarian Ken Burns will speak next month about the Civil War at the Tennessee Theatre. Lincoln Memorial University's Duncan School of Law and the East Tennessee Historical Society ...
That's a phrase that has been bandied about lately with the controversy over displaying the Confederate battle flag. Now viewers can experience again Ken Burns' seminal documentary that covered the ...
WALPOLE, N.H. -- When Ken Burns' "Civil War" hit public television in 1990, it was a revelation: Burns invested a faded period of American history with new life, color and emotion. The public does not ...
Ken Burns is exploring the moment that started it all. Just before Burns'The American Revolution documentary series debuts in November, the celebrated historical filmmaker will release a companion ...
FREE TO READ] The filmmaker is on a mission to strip the story of American independence of mythology and nostalgia ...
During a talk in Palm Beach, filmmaker Ken Burns discussed the ideas behind the U.S. Revolutionary War, the subject of his ...
Throughout his career, Burns has developed and perfected the tricks of his particular trade: the evocative use of music and quotations from speeches and correspondence; the use of actors to read the ...
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