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Ken Burns ' Ken Burns - a 36-hour documentary of and by America¹s self-described greatest living documentary filmmaker -has been announced as Burns' next exhaustive project. The indefatigable Burns will examine his own life in obsessive, illuminating detail: 18 two-hour installments backed by his trademark mournful soundtrack (including 74 different interpretations of If My Friends Could See Me Now ), a 650-page coffee table book, calendars, neckties, napkin rings, a bagel toaster, a children¹s breakfast cereal, an Xbox 360 game, and a nine-volume CD set of his favorite music, including one CD that finds him humming what may or may not be his favorite showtunes (www.pastdeadlin....ken_burns/)
I am a long time fan of both baseball and Ken Burns 's documentaries. Here Burns does a great job of describing the highlights of baseball's golden years in New York , from the Yankees in the 1920s through the battles between the Dodgers, Giants and Yankees in the 1950s, including a nice presentation of the story of the Negro Leagues and Jackie Robinson. Great newsreel footage is used to excellent effect. If you are a fan of New York baseball, it probably does not get any better than thi (www.amazon.com....racious-10)
Ken Burns 's documentaries are always well put together and very interesting. This one on Jefferson is no exception. The pictures , personal accounts, and music are what make his films so great. In this documentary, Burns takes a look at the life of one of the founding fathers of our nation (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
This 1996 two-part documentary by Ken Burns provides an introduction to the man who was the third President of the United States but did not feel the position was worth mentioning. Read mor (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
This Ken Burns documentary about the life and character of Thomas Jefferson offers some of the same touches that grace other productions by Mr. Read more (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
Ken Burns 's documentaries are always well put together and very interesting. This one on Jefferson is no exception. The pictures , personal accounts, and music are what make his films so great. In this documentary, Burns takes a look at the life of one of the founding fathers of our nation. (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
This 1996 two-part documentary by Ken Burns provides an introduction to the man who was the third President of the United States but did not feel the position was worth mentioning. Read more (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
Ken Burns seems to have gotten an Iowa city wrong in his new War documentary. According to The Des Moines Register , Rep. Bruce Braley, a Democrat from Waterloo , Iowa, was watching the PBS show Sunday night and realized that a reference to five local brothers was wrong. (blogs.usatoday.com....urns-.html)
gif alt="Analysiss> Advocates Discuss Agreement to Add Hispanic Voice to WWII Film After much pressure , documentary filmmaker Ken Burns agreed to add stories about Hispanics' role in World War II to his documentary, "The War ." A Latino history professor and a film festival CEO give their views (www.pbs.org....05-14.html)
Then late last week came a statement that Burns' company, Florentine Films, and several Latino groups had reached a new understanding that, quote, "recognizes legitimate Latino concerns about Ken Burns ' upcoming documentary series and equally recognizes that the artistic decisions of what appears in his film are his and his alone to make." (www.pbs.org....05-14.html)
And the other part of it is that Ken Burns received public funding from the National Endowment from the Humanities and several other foundations, and I write grant proposals all the time. And I would like to understand, are we all held to the same standards? Are all of the standards equally applicable to all of us (www.pbs.org....05-14.html)
Mark Twain was a master story teller, and Ken Burns does him justice. As for the racial overtones, this is the man that wrote Huck Finn. There was a racial under current in everything then, and almost everything now. Some people are naive (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
If you've seen anything by Ken Burns , you know his formula, and you will not see anything different here. But the formula is good, and it works. Read mor (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
If you've seen anything by Ken Burns , you know his formula, and you will not see anything different here. But the formula is good, and it works. Read more (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
As the nation's most patriotic holiday approaches, we asked Contributing Editor Ken Burns to preview his upcoming World War II special and tell readers about this summer 's big oral history project (www.usaweekend.com....burns.html)
It is no surprise that "Baseball" is so well put together. Ken Burns has repeatedly shown he is a talented documentarian, and the same quality evident in "Jazz" and "The War " can. Read more (www.amazon.com....racious-10)
Ken Burns 's Baseball works magnificently on DVD, if only for the reason that scene selection in such a massive documentary is essential for viewing and re-viewing your favorite sections. The DVD menus are purely functional, and the timelines and baseball stats will appeal primarily to diehard fans of the game . Clicking on the PBS logo will take you to the stats and bios of players, although the bios are minimal. Each of the first nine discs contains these as well as trivia questions. Get the question right, move on to the next question. Get it wrong and a snippet of the documentary plays, showing you the correct answer. The real appeal of the DVD set (other than, of course, the fabulous documentary itself) is the 10th, "extra inning" disc. This final disc contains the documentary The Making of Baseball , as well as team info (which, again, is pretty basic) and episodes of Charlie Rose's talk show, in which he interviews Ken Burns , Bob Gibson, Yogi Berra, Bob Costas, and Rachel Robinson (the widow of Jackie Robinson (www.amazon.com....racious-10)
But Ken - and I'm not actually speaking for him, but it's just my observation of his work - is every bit as artistic as some of the more experimental films that we look at. It may have at its foundation a good deal of history, but it's also a personal film, an artistic film, and it has a point of vie (www.pbs.org....05-14.html)
The complicated life of Thomas Jefferson is the subject of this excellent documentary by noted filmmaker Ken Burns . Using techniques that will seem comfortably familiar to viewers of other films by Burns, historians and writers (including Joseph Ellis, Daniel Boorstin, Garry Wills, and Gore Vidal) appear on camera to speak about Jefferson, a cast of actors read the words of Jefferson and others. The visuals include beautifully photographed shots of Jefferson's famed estate, Monticello, other locations where Jefferson lived and worked, and a vast number of period drawings and paintings. Jefferson, who was born into a prosperous Virginia family but lost his father when he was young, became a skilled lawyer despite his natural shyness. And the story of how he became a public figure and rose to prominence during the American Revolution is told intelligently. Commentators, including the noted African American historian John Hope Franklin, grapple with the peculiar inconsistencies of Jefferson's life (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
Ken Burns has given us another good documentary here, but it would have been better, in my opinion, to make this one a little longer to be able to provide a more accurate portrait of Jefferson's life. Instead, many basic historical facts have been ignored, and we are left with a picture of Jefferson that, despite making him seem a great hero of the revolution (which he was), is not accurate. (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
This was an extremely pleasant television biography of our most complex president, and it certainly had a number of good things going for it. For instance, there are many, many wonderful shots of Monticiello in all kinds of weather, and this seemed to bring the viewer closer to Jefferson than many such examinations of his life do. And as in most of Ken Burns 's undertakings, a number of eloquent scholars contributed their perspectives to the show. But the fact is that the show ends up passing over too many facts and aspects of Jefferson's life. By any standard, Jefferson is the most complex prominent American in our history. More has been written about Lincoln, and while there are aspects of his personality that baffle us, compared to Jefferson he is a model of transparency. So, I do not fault the documentary for leaving Jefferson a bit of a mystery. As Joseph Ellis remarks in it (repeating the central image of his admirable biography), if Jefferson were a statue, he would be a sphinx. I've read several biographies of Jefferson as well as at least a dozen or so books in which he features prominently, and the more I read about him, the perplexing aspects of his life and personality become more and not less bafflin (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
This is an incredible piece of filmmaking. This is Ken Burns ' long-overlooked documentary masterpiece about the birth and transformation of the West of America. Every "chapter" is more engaging than the last. This doc is also very well-balanced as far as the white Native American points of view. "The West" spans the devastation and ingenuity unique to American History . This doc is completely overshadowed by "Baseball" and "The Civil War," (IMDB.com has thousands of votes for those two and only about 100 for "The West") but this is as good as it gets . Go West (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
The most successful public-television miniseries in American history , the 11-hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the "Ken Burns approach," its style is understood: voice-over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writer's name at their conclusion, fresh live footage of places juxtaposed with still images (photographs, paintings, maps, prints), anecdotal interviews, and romantic musical scores taken from the era he depicts. The Civil War uses all of these devices to evoke atmosphere and resurrect an event that many knew only from stale history books. While Burns is a historian, a researcher, and a documentarian, he's above all a gifted storyteller, and it's his narrative powers that give this chronicle its beauty, overwhelming emotion, and devastating horror. Using the words of old letters, eloquently read by a variety of celebrities, the stories of historians like Shelby Foote and rare, stained photos, Burns allows us not only to relearn and finally understand our history, but also to feel and experience i (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
The DVD features on The Civil War provide a wealth of insight, creative philosophy, historical perspective, and educational enjoyment. Twelve years after its premiere broadcast, the film was given a digital facelift, sharpening image clarity, correcting color, and enriching its soundtrack with a remastered 5.1-channel mix, as demonstrated in the "Civil War Reconstruction " featurette. In interviews from 2002, producer-director Ken Burns , historian Shelby Foote, journalist George Will, author Stanley Crouch, and composer-musicians Jay Ungar and Molly Mason reflect upon The Civil War's enduring significance. And Burns's eloquent commentary-selectively included on each disc and totaling five hours-illuminates the historical importance and creative impulse behind crucial chapters of the film. Fifty-seven onscreen biography cards detail important North, South, and civilian figures, and two 1990 featurettes "Making History" and "A Conversation with Ken Burns "-provide a more personal perspective on the creation of this extraordinary fi (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling , Ken Burns 's epic documentary brings to life America's most destructive- and defining-conflict. With digitally enhanced images and new stereo sound, here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one. (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
There aren't too many productions from television that one can call "noble," but Ken Burns ' The Civil War qualifies. Burns uses photographs, music, speech, maps and historical context to tell the story of the second most formative event in the nation's history. And since in those days people wrote.diaries, letters, journals.there is the written record not just of the great leaders, the politicians and generals, but of the wives and sweethearts, the nurses and doctors, newspaper editors and farmers. Most of all there are the words of the soldiers. Burns shows the importance and the sweep of the war , but in part he does it through the lives of average people caught up in events they may not have completely comprehended, but which they believed in (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
Ken Burns has established himself as one of the greats in terms of historical documentaries. The Civil War is Mr. Burns' greatest work. The attention to detail brings the history to life. Mr. Burns does an excellent job of bringing humanity to the tragic time in America . With the use of solder's and family letters it is evident what a difficult time it was to be an American. Originally aired on PBS in September of 1990, nearly fifteen years later the series remains the ultimate narrative about the United States darkest tim (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
The series is finally released on DVD. While the price is a little high the amazing quality of the series makes the cost very reasonable. Ken Burns ' Civil War is required for any Civil War historian's collection. The series is also a great way for those wishing to learn more about the Civil War. I would recommend this to anyone that loves historical documentaries. It does not get any better than The Civil War A Film by Ken Burn (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
On such an emotionally charged subject and divisive one at that, the series ends on a note of unity and understanding and caution. And I add we must understand this past, its real causes, to avoid repeating such tragedies in the future. Ken Burns and company did a beautiful job at illuminating an ugly and harrowing subject (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
One of the songs that plays wordlessly in the background at various times during this documentary is a tune that was recycled probably from an Irish tune from 1688 during the Glorious Revolution there. It was known during America's Revolution as Johnny's Gone for a Soldier , in the late 1600's and before 1776, it was also called Shule Agra and Buttermilk Hill. One must wonder at why the southerners suffered so many deprivations during the war to keep fighting like they did without shoes on their feet and little food, marching and marching for countless miles, 20-30 a day. I agree with others when they say that the subject of reconstruction is not dealt with in this film. It is an important subject too but is more than enough for a film of its own. After the war , southerners had their properties confiscated which engendered the term carpet bagger to denote the true motives of northern transplants to the south. Such were some of the liberators of American slaves. It was such a tragic war and as Ken Burns and others comment at the end, its consequences are still with u (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
Hailed as a film masterpiece and landmark in historical storytelling , Ken Burns 's epic documentary brings to life America's most destructive- and defining-conflict. With digitally enhanced images and new stereo sound, here is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become one (www.amazon.com....24-1676656)
Just so we get this out of the way, the above headline and story that follows are satire, that revolutionary form of comedy recently denounced by the Bush Administration as being at once dangerous, unpatriotic and confusing. It is the brilliant creation of longtime writer-producer and friend Rich Procter and - like the best spoofery - is but a small tug removed from reality, as anyone who has watched a Ken Burns project through its entirety can attest (www.pastdeadlin....ken_burns/)
"This is bigger than Kennedy. . . . This is the New Testament." "I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often. No, seriously. It's a dramatic event. (obamamessiah.blogspot.com....ncoln.html)
Many have written me with the dilemma of what to buy for that special Civil War buff. The best suggestion I can make is to give the ultimate Civil War gift: the Ken Burns Civil War series as seen on PBS. This is a 10 hour video documentary of pure Civil War gold. Below you can choose between acquiring the entire series on DVD or VHS. We have personally researched this material, and can assure you that it will increase both the depth and breadth of your understanding of this important period of our history. Ken Burn's Civil War PBS Video Serie (www.sonofthesouth.net....il_War.htm)
Shelby Foote was the gentleman in Ken Burn's Civil War series that so effectively told the story of the Civil War. Shelby is a noted historian, and wrote the quintessential book on the conflict. If you have only one resource on the Civil War, this should be it. Shelby spent 20 years writing this material, and when you read it, you feel like you are hearing from an eye witness to the conflict. The books are filled with material you will not find anywhere else. If you did not get enough of of Shelby on Ken Burn's Civil War video series on PBS, then please treat yourself to Shelby Foote's masterpiece (www.sonofthesouth.net....il_War.htm)
The Ken Burns Effect: Because many of Burns films cover historical subjects for which there is little or no archival footage, the filmmaker relies heavily on the use of archival stills. To bring the stills to life, he uses the camera to slow pan and zoom within the frame of the photograph, which continually refocuses the viewer s attention from one element within the still to another. He also employs gradual fades between photographs to transition from subject to subject. These techniques, now widely used in documentary filmmaking, have been dubbed The Ken Burns Effect. (documentaries.about.com..../Burns.htm)
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