Ken Burns
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Prohibition
An app that dissects and reassembles Ken Burns films as one massive American history timeline? Yes please. avclub.com/article/docume…
The Central Park Five
Baseball
“One sportswriter said that [Ty Cobb] ‘would climb a mountain to punch an echo.’” #KenBurnsBaseball
The Statue of Liberty
Ken Burns was still finding his voice in 1985, and with Reagan in office, PBS was even more inclined than usual to document its federal benefactor through a few layers of gauze. So it’s not shocking that two thirds of The Statue of Liberty borders on peacetime jingoism, but it is disappointing. I had been hoping to learn about the marvel of engineering and diplomacy that was the statue’s origin, and I did. But in… See more →
Brooklyn Bridge
The Civil War
Finished Ken Burns’ Civil War. It was truly outstanding. I wish I could’ve watched it with my dad.
Okay, Ken Burns’ Civil War, let’s go. If anything can make a man out of me, it is you.