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Best Ken Burns documentaries
Posted on 7/16/23 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 7/16/23 at 2:27 pm
I’m watching Civil War right now, which should I watch next
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Posted on 7/16/23 at 2:32 pm to Lsujacket66
His Baseball series was also fantastic.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 2:36 pm to Lsujacket66
I enjoyed the Roosevelts
Posted on 7/16/23 at 2:46 pm to Lsujacket66
Baseball
Posted on 7/16/23 at 3:13 pm to Lsujacket66
Baseball and The Civil War are notches above the rest.
I enjoyed the National Parks series.
I enjoyed the National Parks series.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 3:15 pm to Lsujacket66
The Vietnam War is the best documentary I've ever seen.
I've never seen something so in depth. It's a marathon though. I think 18 total hours.
I've never seen something so in depth. It's a marathon though. I think 18 total hours.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 3:24 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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I enjoyed the National Parks series.
This was my favorite
Posted on 7/16/23 at 4:24 pm to meauxses
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The Vietnam War is the best documentary I've ever seen.
the oral history interviews are fantastic
Posted on 7/16/23 at 4:35 pm to Lsujacket66
His Huey P Long one is good. It’s neat to hear stories from older people in the 1980s who were part of the administration, the media, who voted for him, or hated him in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 5:17 pm to The Boat
Country music and prohibition r good too. Hell just watch all of them
Posted on 7/16/23 at 5:40 pm to Lsujacket66
Old Negro Space Program is his best by far.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 5:55 pm to Dam Guide
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I enjoyed the National Parks series.
This was my favorite
Same.
Never knew the story of America's invention could be so deep and tied to the uniqueness of America and it's people. Plus, you find out going to National Parks is America's true National Pastime.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 7:33 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Baseball
Vietnam War
Huey Long
The Roosevelts
World War2
I was at the premier screening of Huey Long at the LSU Student Union Theater when it came out. Ken Burns was there and gave a talk before the showing and answered a few questions afterward. He was very young then and nobody really knew who he was.
Vietnam War
Huey Long
The Roosevelts
World War2
I was at the premier screening of Huey Long at the LSU Student Union Theater when it came out. Ken Burns was there and gave a talk before the showing and answered a few questions afterward. He was very young then and nobody really knew who he was.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 7:39 pm to Lsujacket66
Since I worked in the French Quarter from 19 to 32, I was particularly fascinated by his "Jazz" documentary.
To see this new sound's humble beginnings, watch it catch fire through rising stars, then to watch FQ-born Louis Armstrong outshine them all and deliver it to the world, was quite satisfying. Wynton Masalis' commentary throughout is very insightful. He's as much of a historian as he is a musician (almost like a player-coach.)
Then they cover it's further evolution from 4 to 7-piece bands, to big bands, to jazz crooners, to progressive jazz, to fusion jazz, etc. If any of that interests you, you might enjoy this Jazz documentary.
To see this new sound's humble beginnings, watch it catch fire through rising stars, then to watch FQ-born Louis Armstrong outshine them all and deliver it to the world, was quite satisfying. Wynton Masalis' commentary throughout is very insightful. He's as much of a historian as he is a musician (almost like a player-coach.)
Then they cover it's further evolution from 4 to 7-piece bands, to big bands, to jazz crooners, to progressive jazz, to fusion jazz, etc. If any of that interests you, you might enjoy this Jazz documentary.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 7:49 pm to DLSWVA
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His Baseball series was also fantastic.
I watch that every year around opening day. Just fantastic.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 8:24 pm to Lsujacket66
I enjoyed the dust bowl
Posted on 7/16/23 at 8:30 pm to Lsujacket66
Country music is incredible.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 8:30 pm to Lsujacket66
Country music.
Posted on 7/16/23 at 8:53 pm to 91TIGER
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Baseball
I may be the outlier here, but I didn't like the baseball one. I think it's his only one that didn't start in linear chronological order and I was lost.
IIRC, they start off like mid-30s then jump from the HR era back to the bunting era & then fast-forwards to the mid-20s, or something like that. I never finished it. I wanted to see how baseball began & how it evolved into America's game, in that order, not in the scrambled order I saw. But that's just me. To each their own.
This post was edited on 7/16/23 at 9:17 pm
Posted on 7/16/23 at 9:24 pm to Feral
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His Baseball series was also fantastic.
I watch that every year around opening day. Just fantastic.
Except on his lazy/incompetent hack job
on Ty Cobb.He relied on Al Stump's book full of lies instead of doing some actual research.
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