Pros: vivid pictures, descriptions, and accounts of experiences during the Civil War Cons: none
It is well that war is so terrible… we should grow too fond of it… - Robert E. Lee watching the battle of Fredericksburg. An anecdote about Wilmer McClain, who moved his family from Bull Run, where a Union shell landed in the ...
Pros: Fine (if sometimes inaccurate) script, great narrator, and always-interesting presentation Cons: A few factual errors do show up.
"We have felt the incommunicable experience of war. We felt - we still feel - the passion of life to its top. In our youths our hearts were touched with fire." - Oliver Wendell Holmes. On September 23, 1990, just as units of the XVIII ...
Pros: The entire production, approach, commentary, photography and cinematography. Cons: None.
Ken Burns Civil War: One of the Best Documentaries Ever Made!
1989 saw the airing of "The Civil War", a brilliant 9-part and 13 hour documentary on PBS. 2002 has seen the entire series remastered from the original tapes and editing from...
Pros: Compelling archival photos Cons: Poorly told, slow-paced, and much too shallow for it's length
It goes against PBS-fan (though perhaps not Civil-War-buff) orthodoxy to pan this Ken Burns documentary on which so much encomium has been heaped. But it has to be said: The Civil War is thin, irregular, and given it's stupefying length (eleven ...
Pros: Unforgettable factual storytelling Cons: Too intense for children
Ken Burns' documentary masterpiece "The Civil War" is a titanic work of historical filmmaking and among the most moving works of storytelling, either factual or fictional, I've ever seen. Spanning the entire war, as well as a bit before and...
Pros: The final word on Civil War documentaries Cons: Still looking
Simply, this is the most amazing Civil War documentary that I have every seen. The scope and detail of the film is awesome with historians giving opinions and a great soundtrack to set the mood.
The retelling of the battles is so real that the...
If there is a such thing as a documentary mainstream, Ken Burns helped create it with this masterpiece. Never before had a strictly historical documentary been able to grab the attention of the masses to such an extent. Every history buff in the...
Collector's set of the critically acclaimed Ken Burns' documentary miniseries and the highest rated PBS show in history. The Civil War is examined in ...More at Family Video
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