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Posted Saturday 9/21/19 at 12:54AM EDT
Ken Burns' Country Music documentary is more interested in country myths, not its music
"Telling a story that runs the better part of 100 years necessitates some tough editorial decisions," says Stephen Thomas Erlewine,...
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TV Today: Ken Burns Captures the Sweeping History of Country Music
Though the topics of his signature documentaries don't always jump out as the most electrifying subject matter, Ken Burns' epic...
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Posted Saturday 9/14/19 at 3:10AM EDT
Ken Burns' Country Music epic documentary works best on an emotional level, but it's short on analysis
"As daunting as it may seem to watch all 16 hours, the music is more than enough to carry a...
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Barnhart: Ken Burns’ Country Music Is Long, But There’s Not a False Note In It
Country Music, a film by Ken Burns September 15-18 and September 22-25 at 8pm ET on PBS stations (check local listings) ...
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Posted Wednesday 8/21/19 at 8:05PM EDT
BBC orders Dolly's Country, a Dolly Parton documentary that it will pair with Ken Burns' Country Music
The BBC has acquired Burns' sprawling PBS country music documentary, and the British network will add its own series of...
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Barnhart: The Congress Is the Ken Burns Film We Need Today
The Congress 1988 Watch on: Amazon Prime Video | YouTube Ken Burns isn't exactly an overlooked filmmaker.
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Posted Wednesday 6/19/19 at 9:35PM EDT
Ken Burns' The Central Park Five documentary is proof that When They See Us got the story right
Burns' 2012 Peabody-winning PBS documentary on the five youths accused of raping a jogger in Central Park, which is currently...
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Posted Friday 2/01/19 at 1:22PM EST
Ken Burns' 16-hour Country Music documentary premieres Sept. 15
Burns' latest epic documentary will air over eight nights, featuring spotlights on Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard, Loretta Lynn,...
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Posted Tuesday 9/25/18 at 6:56PM EDT
Ken Burns turns his documentary lens on the famed Mayo Clinic
Burns' two-hour PBS documentary, The Mayo Clinic: Faith-Hope-Science, premieres tonight as an "unabashed love letter" to the Minnesota not-for-profit medical...
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PBS orders documentaries on Woodstock and Reconstruction, plus Ken Burns' The Gene
PBS announced it will mark the 50th anniversary of the iconic 1969 Woodstock music festival next year with a two-hour...
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Posted Wednesday 4/25/18 at 10:49PM EDT
Mindy Kaling on her admiration for Ken Burns: "I hope he never dies"
“I just finished The Vietnam War by Ken Burns,” she says.
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Posted Wednesday 1/17/18 at 12:03AM EST
Ken Burns is putting his quilt collection on exhibition
The PBS documentarian has been collecting quilts for more than four decades, and 28 of them will be on display...
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Posted Tuesday 11/14/17 at 2:27PM EST
Ken Burns’ The Vietnam War averaged 6.7 million viewers over its 10 nights
This makes it the second highest-rated film that collaborators Burns and Lynn Novick have made in the past two decades,...
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Posted Monday 11/06/17 at 10:48PM EST
Historian Shelby Foote from PBS' The Civil War apparently held racist views of blacks
The late historian, who has been in the news after apparently influencing Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly's views on...
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Posted Wednesday 11/01/17 at 7:58PM EDT
In defense of Ken Burns’ The Civil War
It’s unfair to blame a 14-second Shelby Foote clip from Burns’ epic documentary for White House chief of staff John...
