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2 days ago · Ken Burns, who lives and works just over the Connecticut River in Walpole, New Hampshire, has been making award-winning documentary films and miniseries for almost a half century. On May 19, Burns gave this commencement address at Brandeis University, where he received an honorary degree (doctor of creative arts). We not only found his words extraordinarily thought provoking but also ...
The LP Podcast welcomes its new host, Lincoln Project co-founder and Creative Director, Rick Wilson. In this episode, Rick is joined by legendary filmmaker Ken Burns as they discuss the events and circumstances which gave America her Greatest Generation, as well as what Americans can learn from them in an age where democratic institutions are under threat from without and within.
1 day ago · PBS LearningMedia. Ken Burns in the Classroom | Jackie Robinson collection. Grades 6-12 This collection of rich, multimedia resources explores Jackie Robinson, a Ken Burns film, that tells the story of an American icon whose life-long battle for first class citizenship for all African Americans transcended even his remarkable athletic achievements.
2 days ago · Ken Burns’s two-part, four-hour “The American Buffalo” (PBS) braids the biography of the animal with the Native American experience, tracing two parallel and overlapping historical tracks of ...
1 day ago · When Ken Burns completed his film about jazz, he said, “I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people.” And in his film Country Music, he quotes Merle Haggard saying that country music is “about those things we believe in, but can’t see.…” In these observations, Ken Burns and Merle Haggard capture music’s ...
1 day ago · The Ken Burns Effect It isn’t unusual (actually, it’s expected) for any documentary to rely completely on still photos, narration, and stock film footage for content, especially for events ...
2 days ago · Still other projects worth the watch include documentaries like George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin, Storming Juno, and Chapter 4 of Ken Burns’ docuseries The War (2007), titled “Pride of Our ...
