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: 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: 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: 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...
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...
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...
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...
Titles: Ken Burns' Civil War Episode 1: The Cause - 1861; Ken Burns' Civil War Episode 2: A Very Bloody Affair - 1862; Ken Burns' Civil War Episode...More at The History Channel
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