[Documentaries] Favorite Ken Burns Doc?

Not proud of this, Ive never read a Mark Twain novel. I dont read novels. Its embarrassing somewhat but not enough to make me start.

That being said ive been watching the Mark Twain documentary. None of my hs or college english classes had a Twain assignment (i did read english assignments) and i had no idea his importance in humanizing black people and their plight

Another thank you Ken Burns

 

bump

The Today in History thread reminded me that this is releasing soon!



https://kenburns.com/films/the-american-revolution/

 

Excellent bump. Reminds me to look up some of his stuff I haven't seen. Some are of course better than others but I don't think I've disliked anything he's done.

 

Country music was my favorite.

 

Looking forward to this new documentary.

 

No Taxation without Representation is so IMPORTANT IMO, it's the epitome of why we fight for Justice and I think this small fact gets lost at times, I am fine with paying for things such as roads and safety, but I want a say in how it's being spent

 

Baseball and The Roosevelts.

 

Since the thread had been bumped I've added both Country Music and the National Parks docs to my watch list. I love them both. Country music might be one of the best except one of the last episodes, I didn't enjoy at all

 

my favorite as well.

wish Ken Burns would produce a documentary on the JFK assassination

 

Ken Burns, "The American Revolution", starts on PBS this Sunday the 16th

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-revolution

 

It's awesome for me and such a happy coincidence that this series is airing right after I finished reading Nathaniel Philbrick's American Revolution trilogy (highly recommended, btw).

I have Rick Atkinson's books on the same subject on deck. The first two were released (the second is an expensive hardcover but I used my Barnes and Noble birthday gift card to buy it, yay!). Given that the third will take a while to see the shelves, I'm not in a gigantic rush to read them, but I think his material tends to be more far-reaching (without getting pedantic or boring).

Philbrick is in the middle of Atkinson and, say, Stephen Ambrose (history lite, i.e., history books for people not into reading).

Ken Burns puts together great material. I've been hooked since "The Civil War". "The Roosevelts" was also excellent, and only suffered from Teddy Roosevelt's time on earth (not so many newsreels or photographs from the early 20th century).

 

I'm on it, thanks for the recs!

McCullough's "1776" is the last Revolutionary era book I've read.

 

The Vietnam War

 

Funny, I just saw an Amazon recommendation for that book. I remember seeing it in searches. Might just have to check it out, thanks for the mention.

 

Ken’s brother Ric also makes documentaries and the one about the history of New York is great.

 

Any book by David McCullough is worth reading.