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Finished Ken Burns' American Buffalo Doc? Then It's Time for Homecoming
The TV landscape is shifting, but there’s one thing we can still count on: the arrival of a riveting new...
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Ten Great Music Docs You Can Stream Right Now
The streaming era has created a boom for music docs in both content and form.
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Posted Wednesday 4/06/22 at 2:25AM EDT
Ranking every Ken Burns documentary
Esquire's ranking has the recently released Benjamin Franklin (No.
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Posted Monday 4/04/22 at 9:16PM EDT
Ken Burns' Benjamin Franklin PBS documentary offers the “concealed contradictions" of the legendary Founding Father
In Burns' new two-part four-hour documentary, "Burns felt 'obligated to tell all the facets' of Franklin’s life—from the famous kite to...
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Recommended: Benjamin Franklin on PBS
Benjamin Franklin's life, achievements, and ongoing historical resonance are explored with nuanced research and context.
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TV Today: NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Ken Burns Profiles Benjamin Franklin
Ken Burns turns his lens on Benjamin Franklin in a new documentary that explores the life and work of the...
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Posted Thursday 9/30/21 at 3:01AM EDT
Ken Burns' Muhammad Ali is an immensely watchable documentary, but it also avoids being provocative
"Burns is a master cataloger of consensus, especially across a broad sweep of history, and so it would make sense...
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Posted Tuesday 9/14/21 at 11:08PM EDT
Ken Burns' Muhammad Ali PBS documentary is well-done, but it doesn't offer much compared to the numerous others docs on the boxing icon
"In Ken Burns’ four-part Muhammad Ali—co-directed with his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband David McMahon—the documentarian and his crew...
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Posted Thursday 8/12/21 at 1:45PM EDT
Ken Burns doesn't take it personally being described as an example of "white producer privilege"
Burns was asked at the TV press tour about the open letter signed by 140 filmmakers citing him as an...
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Posted Tuesday 8/10/21 at 11:06PM EDT
Academy of Country Music to honor Ken Burns' Country Music after it was shut out from last year's Emmys
Burns' 2019 documentary will be recognized at the ACM Honors on Aug.
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Posted Wednesday 8/04/21 at 2:14AM EDT
Ken Burns says his staff is very diverse and that his documentaries don't take up a lot of PBS' airtime
Burns' recent comments on The New York Times' Sway podcast are in response to more than 130 filmmakers calling out...
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Posted Wednesday 4/07/21 at 11:14PM EDT
The #MeToo movement, wokeness and cancel culture influenced PBS' Hemingway in "obvious ways and not so obvious ways"
Lynn Novick and Ken Burns spent seven years working on their six-part docuseries.
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Ken Burns Reveals New Documentary About His Bowl Haircut on Kimmel
Ken Burns appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Tuesday to promote his new PBS documentary Hemingway, and he unveiled a...
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Posted Wednesday 4/07/21 at 2:15PM EDT
Ken Burns spoofs his famous bowl cut in Jimmy Kimmel Live!'s Ken Burns-style documentary
Watch Burns, who now has long hair, in "HAIR I AM – A Ken Burns Documentary About Ken Burns.
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Posted Tuesday 4/06/21 at 2:48AM EDT
Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's Hemingway documentary is excessive and discordant, but it manages to work
"Is 2021 the worst time imaginable for a six-hour documentary about Ernest Hemingway? Maybe," says Daniel Fienberg of Burns and...