re: The American Revolution-Ken Burns

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He did his best to revise the entire history of country music. This one should be comical as well.

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That was really only the first episode which I realized upon rewatch I missed during the actual premiere when it came out live.

What’s funny is liberal decry his Civil War series as promoting the lost cause because it’s actually fairly well balanced and doesn’t really judge either side the way historians seem to do today.

I am concerned about this doc not “lying” per say. But going hamfisted in one direction and playing a lot up to appease progressive liberals.

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tune in to see how women and african americans reallly won the war

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Many slaves understandably switched sides and fought for british. Wasn't enough to turn the tide

How can I watch all the Ken Burns stuff without signing up for a PBS subscription?

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The people citing his Civil War and Baseball series as evidence of his non-bias are being purposely disingenuous

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Every filmmaker, artist, journalist, person is biased. It's probably more disingenuous to think of Burns as some far left documentarian just because he made a doc on the nazi sympathizer movement in America during WWII. You know this is what you're doing, even though you probably learned about American nazi sympathizers in high school, like everyone else did.

... as told through the eyes of the real heroes (AND, MORE IMPORTANTLY, VICTIMS) of the Revolution, the always-virtuous Black folks.




With Ken Burns, just rinse, lather, and repeat.

I'm sure there will be some KB self-flagellation about how the Indians were affected by the white man's violence, too.

Just watch Epic History TV's miniseries on the American Revolution. It explains how it all went down without all of the bullshite.

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I'm sure there will be some KB self-flagellation about how the Indians

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God forbid a 12-hour documentary cover anything beyond what everybody else has already covered a million times. I like my docs too confirm what I already know, and that's it, gosh darnit. If I haven't learned it yet, it's obviously not worth learning.

I won't attempt to watch this garbage.

I know what a lot of his narrative will already be.

For crying out loud, Burns worked the angle of racism into his documentary about National Parks. He's nothing more than a race hustler.

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God forbid a 12-hour documentary cover anything beyond what everybody else has already covered a million times. I like my docs too confirm what I already know, and that's it, gosh darnit. If I haven't learned it yet, it's obviously not worth learning.

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My test will be how much credit he gives the Iroquois Confederation and how more much credit he gives British Conservatism and Greek democracy