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The War - A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
: :The War will be a seven - episode series produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick that will examine the myriad ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America. By telling the stories of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns Waterbury Connecticut; Mobile Alabama; Sacramento California; and the tiny farming town of Luverne Minnesota the series will portray this enormous worldwide catastrophe on an intimate human scale. The War will ...
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Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
: essential video:Another reliably well-crafted, generally engrossing documentary from Ken Burns, Lewis & Clark employs the director's now-familiar approach to his subjects, from its elegant juxtaposition of period illustrations and portraits against newly filmed footage of historic sites to Burns's repertory of accomplished actors to provide gravitas for quotes from the key figures. Granted the formula has become familiar enough to allow parody, but Burns knows how to invest his historical investigations with movement and drama, making this four-hour journey a worthwhile trip. As narrated ...
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Thomas Jefferson - A Film by Ken Burns
: :The complicated life of Thomas Jefferson is the subject of this excellent documentary by noted filmmaker Ken Burns. Using techniques that will seem comfortably familiar to viewers of other films by Burns, historians and writers (including Joseph Ellis, Daniel Boorstin, Garry Wills, and Gore Vidal) appear on camera to speak about Jefferson, a cast of actors read the words of Jefferson and others. The visuals include beautifully photographed shots of Jefferson's famed estate, Monticello, other locations where Jefferson lived and worked, and a vast number ...
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
: :The complicated life of Thomas Jefferson is the subject of this excellent documentary by noted filmmaker Ken Burns. Using techniques that will seem comfortably familiar to viewers of other films by Burns, historians and writers (including Joseph Ellis, Daniel Boorstin, Garry Wills, and Gore Vidal) appear on camera to speak about Jefferson, a cast of actors read the words of Jefferson and others. The visuals include beautifully photographed shots of Jefferson's famed estate, Monticello, other locations where Jefferson lived and worked, and a vast number ...
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Mark Twain - A Film Directed by Ken Burns
: :Given the legendary life of its subject, it's not surprising that Mark Twain is perhaps the most entertaining documentary Ken Burns has made. The creator of The Civil War and Jazz achieves reverent harmony with the magnificent story of Missouri-born author Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain), encompassing legend and fact with an exhilarating sense of adventure. Hailed by Hemingway as the originator of American literature, Twain (a nom de plume taken from a riverboat pilot's term for 'safe waters') viewed himself as the American. Burns's ...
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
:Description:Horatio's Drive recounts the simultaneously inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 1903 - on a visionary whim and a 50-dollar bet - became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent, heralding the future of the 'horseless carriage' as a vehicle destined for more than inner-city travel and as a machine that would transform American life. :Subtitled 'America's First Road Trip,' Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont ...
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Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
:Description:Horatio's Drive recounts the simultaneously inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 1903 - on a visionary whim and a 50-dollar bet - became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent, heralding the future of the 'horseless carriage' as a vehicle destined for more than inner-city travel and as a machine that would transform American life. :Subtitled 'America's First Road Trip,' Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont ...
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Ken Burns America Collection - Brooklyn Bridge
:Description:Horatio's Drive recounts the simultaneously inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 1903 - on a visionary whim and a 50-dollar bet - became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent, heralding the future of the 'horseless carriage' as a vehicle destined for more than inner-city travel and as a machine that would transform American life. :Subtitled 'America's First Road Trip,' Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont ...
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Ken Burns - American Lives (Thomas Jefferson / Lewis & Clark / Frank Lloyd Wright / Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B Anthony / Mark Twain / Horatio's Drive / Unforgivable Blackness)
:Description:Ken Burns American Lives (7 Disc Gift Set) - Ken Burns American Lives Collection is a compilation of seven outstanding biographies and stories of some of America's most celebrated pioneers and historical events. Programming in this series began with Thomas Jefferson in 1997 and concludes with Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson in 2005. The 7-disc Gift Set collection includes: - Thomas Jefferson (1997) - Lewis and Clark (1997) - Frank Lloyd Wright (1998) - Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of ...
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
:Description:Ken Burns American Lives (7 Disc Gift Set) - Ken Burns American Lives Collection is a compilation of seven outstanding biographies and stories of some of America's most celebrated pioneers and historical events. Programming in this series began with Thomas Jefferson in 1997 and concludes with Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson in 2005. The 7-disc Gift Set collection includes: - Thomas Jefferson (1997) - Lewis and Clark (1997) - Frank Lloyd Wright (1998) - Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of ...
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