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Related: About this forumAnyone know about ..."Ken Burns"? ...greatest document producer ever...
Perhaps you have seen his movies...what do you think of them? or him?
Yes, I recced my own post...for "Ken Burns"

Cirsium
(2,522 posts)The Civil War was extraordinarily well done and is worth watching i you haven't seen it.
lamp_shade
(15,208 posts)JoetheShow
(97 posts)I've seen the Civil War, the American Buffalo, and Benjamin Franklin. There are several others I want to see but my local library does not have them and I'm too cheap/poor to pay for the streaming service.
KarenS
(4,952 posts)The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B Anthony ~ Not for Ourselves Alone.
Part I & Part II is a total of 4 hours,,,, it is a wonderful story.
I've watched many of his documentaries ~ these days one must pay to see them,,,, remember when PBS was free? of course, I'm talking about 'on demand'.
He really steers toward the middle to do the stories,,,, I noticed it particularly watching one about LBJ and
the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
appalachiablue
(43,531 posts)of meeting him once briefly at work at a lecture he gave on the Civil War, what a terrific series. He did take some guff over the lengthy Vietnam War (?) series that some still gripe about but I never wavered.
Xavier Breath
(5,606 posts)Even when the subject matter is going to be rough. I knew going in that The American Buffalo would be a tough watch, but I watched it and came away knowing so much more than I did before.
mitch96
(15,206 posts)I would love to have a beer with and chat..
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