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Director, Screenwriter
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2012
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Ken Burns explores the history of America's prohibition era (1920-33), when alcohol was outlawed after the passage of the...
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Director, Producer
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2011
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Director
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2010
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Director
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2010
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This sumptuously filmed documentary series from Ken Burns explores the origins of America's national parks, from their...
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Producer
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2009
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Discover how some remarkable soldiers found the strength to face almost certain death to save the lives of others in this...
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Executive Producer
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2008
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Ken Burns continues his exploration of massive, sweeping subjects with his 15-hour documentary The War; in this case, the...
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Director, Executive Producer, Producer
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2007
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Cinematographer-turned-documentary filmmaker Patrick Creadon takes a compelling look at the brainy world of crossword...
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2006
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An artist whose life was as bold and startling as her work, Frida Kahlo battled physical infirmity and a male-dominated art...
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Consultant/advisor
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2004
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Experience legendary boxer Jack Johnson's remarkable struggle both in and out of the ring in documentary filmmaker Ken Burns'...
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Director, Executive Producer, Producer
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2004
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This Ken Burns documentary is a vivid celebration of pioneering "automobilist" Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson. In 1903, Jackson...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2003
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Director
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2002
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2001
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The newest project from the master of documentaries deals with the life of author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), one of...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2001
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The newest project from the master of documentaries deals with the life of author Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), one of...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2001
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Episode three of Ken Burns' comprehensive series -- which covers 1924 to 1929 -- shows how jazz reflected the atmosphere of...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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Episode six of Ken Burns's series -- covering 1937 to 1939 -- finds swing fans decrying the commercialization of big band...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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Episode eight -- 1945 to 1955 -- of Ken Burns' series finds jazz musicians reflecting the prosperity and tension of the...
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Director, Producer
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2000
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Director, Producer
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2000
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Episode five of Ken Burns' series deals with jazz during the increasingly bleak Great Depression from 1935 to 1937. Swing...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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Episode four of Ken Burns's acclaimed series -- covering 1929 to 1934 -- finds jazz musicians facing the collapse of the...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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Episode nine of Ken Burns' series -- covering 1956 to 1960 -- deals with a period of immense popularity and transition for...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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PBS home video documents the bitter 50-year war between the Israelis and Arabs. This program begins with the 1947 decision of...
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Director
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2000
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In a similar fashion to his other documentaries, The Civil War and Baseball, Ken Burns uses historical fact and personal...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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Episode two of Ken Burns's exhaustive series explores the haughtiness of the "Jazz Age" -- 1917 to 1924. During this time...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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The final installment of Ken Burns' acclaimed series -- canvassing 1960 to the present -- finds jazz searching for relevance....
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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The seventh part of Ken Burns' series covers the years 1940 to 1945 and finds jazz at the center of battles at home and...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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2000
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Upon finding a written biography of pioneering women's rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, film producers Paul Barnes and...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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1999
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Edward Herrmann narrates this portrait of architect Frank Lloyd Wright, as directed by renowned documentary filmmaker...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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1998
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Join acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns as he follows artist and philosopher William Segal to the breathtaking French...
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Director
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1997
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This Ken Burns documentary, narrated by Hal Holbrook, chronologically traces the well-documented 1804-06 military expedition...
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Book Author, Cinematographer, Director, Executive Producer, Producer
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1997
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Episode Four of director Stephen Ives' epic series covers the period from 1856 to 1868 -- during which the new communities of...
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Executive Producer
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1996
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This first episode in filmmakers Ken Burns and Stephen Ives' epic nine-part series focuses on the various peoples who...
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Executive Producer
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1996
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Episode Seven of director Stephen Ives' nine-part series on the West chronicles a decade with equal measures of hope and...
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Executive Producer
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1996
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In the tumultuous history of the American West, gloriously chronicled by this epic nine-part series, there are many events...
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Executive Producer
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1996
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Episode Six in producer Ken Burns' epic series chronicles the short and tragic period from 1874 through 1877, when the...
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Executive Producer
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1996
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The West, a nine-part documentary created for public television, was more than five years in the making. From acclaimed...
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Executive Producer
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1996
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The ninth volume of Ken Burns and Stephen Ives' The West covers the years from 1887 to 1914. At the dawn of a new century,...
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Executive Producer
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1996
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Ken Burns, America's most popular and successful documentarian of history, has called Thomas Jefferson "the most important...
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Director, Producer
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1996
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Episode Two of director Stephen Ives' ambitious documentary covers the years from 1806 to 1848. Once Lewis and Clark's Corps...
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Executive Producer
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1996
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By 1848 the United States had -- through negotiations, border skirmishes, full-blown war, and an intimidating belief in...
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Executive Producer
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1996
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New York held sway in the world of baseball from 1950-1960, and the seventh episode -- or "inning" -- of Ken Burns'...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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Negro League Baseball, in all of its triumphs and tragedies, is captured in inning five of Ken Burns' classic baseball...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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The previous five "innings" of Ken Burns' sweeping baseball documentary set the stage for the triumphant moment in this...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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Baseball has been part of the fabric of America for over 200 years, and no other sport quite matches the traditions it's...
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Director
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1994
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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Ken Burns' celebrated baseball documentary has come full circle, from the black-and-white images of the game's beginnings to...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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The first episode in Ken Burns' spectacular documentary of America's favorite pastime takes us from baseball's origins in...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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At the turn of the 20th century, Ken Burns' documentary homage to baseball history enters its "second inning." Baseball's...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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The third inning of Ken Burns' nine-inning documentary leads us into the Roaring '20s, but not before hitting the sport's...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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In a decade dominated by the New York Yankees, Babe Ruth became the nation's "heirloom." Inning four of Ken Burns' sweeping...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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The classic black-and-white newsreel clips and old photographs that dominated the first seven innings of Ken Burns'...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1994
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Killer Angels by Michael Shaara becomes this sprawling historical epic. As in Shaara's...
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1993
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Director, Producer
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1992
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Adapted from Tom Lewis' best-selling book, this documentary by premier historic filmmaker Ken Burns examines the legendary...
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Director, Producer
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1991
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In May of 1864, the two foremost generals of the North and South finally met in battle: the withdrawn Grant, fresh from a...
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Director
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1990
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By the summer of 1864, the Union faced its darkest hour. Although its troops and resources far outnumbered those of the...
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Director
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1990
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Ken Burns' epic series begins with the causes of the Civil War in 1861 and ends with the war's aftermath in 1865. A...
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Director
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1990
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When Abraham Lincoln took office in 1861, the United States faced the worst crisis of its 75-year history. Because of...
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Director
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1990
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The Cause -- 1861 opens Ken Burns' epic series on the Civil War, detailing the multiple factors that led the North and South...
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Director
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1990
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As the war continued, the hardships and the human cost became more evident. Many soldiers had little to eat and inadequate...
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Director
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1990
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After winning Atlanta in September of 1865, General Sherman proceeded to take the war to the people of Georgia: His army...
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Director
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1990
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Although the Civil War basically came to a close following Lee's surrender to Grant in the spring of 1865, sporadic fighting...
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Director
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1990
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In 1862, Confederate Generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee came to prominence. Jackson and 18,000 troops successfully...
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Director
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1990
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Two pivotal events would change the course of the Civil War in 1863. General Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia...
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Director
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1990
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Director
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1990
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Documentarian Ken Burns, better known for his epic studies of the Civil War and of Baseball, here explores the life and works...
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Director, Producer
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1989
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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1989
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Renowned documentary-maker Ken Burns uses archival film clips, interviews, newspaper stories, and journals to bring the story...
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Director, Producer
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1988
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In this excellent documentary, the controversial life and political career of Louisiana governor and state senator Huey P....
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Director, Producer
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1987
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Under the official title of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Coming, the Shakers created one of the most...
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Director, Producer
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1985
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This excellent documentary on one of America's most well-known national symbols was nominated for an Academy Award in 1985....
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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1985
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Directed by Ken Burns, this video takes a penetrating look at the role played by Chicago during World War II. Besides the...
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Director
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1982
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Fresh out of college, aspiring filmmaker Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball) read David McCullough's history of the building...
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Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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1982
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Director
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