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Jazz - A Film By Ken Burns review by maxwurr from Stanmore, Middx

Jazz died in 1965... 11 August 2005
......Or it did if you're Ken Burns and there are many who'd agree with him. I don't, but this epic series is an invaluable introduction to the wonderful world of jazz, es... Read customer review

The American Civil War review by dodrade from Strabane

Simply the best 6 June 2010
...ains quite simply the best documentary series I have ever seen, and indeed only Ken Burns' later series The West comes close to matching it. An exhausive and enthralling... Read customer review

The West review by A customer from London

This will teach about the real west, not the one you see in the movies 9 October 2004
...s this mammoth undertaking of the history of the West in America produced by Ken Burns. The film is mammoth in its length, at over 12 hours, but, more importantly,... Read customer review

Ken Burns - The War (6 discs) on DVD (2007)
Starring: Ken Burns
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For thirty years, Ken Burns has portrayed the essential human emotions and American experience of historical events. With THE WAR he has crowned his three decades of achievement with a jewel of unsurpassed detail and intimate drama. By focusing on stories from four quintessential American towns - ..read more »

79% from 77 members

Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fa... (2004)
Starring: Jack Johnson, Keith David, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Ken Burns
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Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns directs and produces this documentary series about boxing legend Jack Johnson. UNFORGIVABLE BLACKNESS: THE RISE AND FALL OF JACK JOHNSON explores in great detail the life and struggle of one of the most remarkable African Americans of the 20th century. Despite ..read more »

72% from 11 members
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Jazz - A Film By Ken Burns (4 discs) on DVD (2000)
Starring: Buddy Bolden, Sidney Bechet, Duke Ellington
Director: Ken Burns
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For the third part of his American Trilogy--following THE CIVIL WAR and BASEBALL--Ken Burns takes on jazz, "that most American of art forms." The 10-part, 19-hour film begins with the music's roots in post-Civil War New Orleans and concludes roughly a century later. The story focuses not only on ..read more »

74% from 412 members

The West (4 discs) on DVD (1996)
Starring: Peter Coyote, Gary Sinise, Matthew Broderick
Director: Ken Burns
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Ken Burns' follow-up to his brilliant 'American Civil War' is 'The West' spanning the history of the American West from 1500 to 1914, intricately weaving together evocative and never before seen still photographs and newsreels from 74 different archives, journals, songs and music, diaries and ..read more »

72% from 903 members

Baseball - 1846 To 2000 (4 discs) on DVD (1994)
Director: Ken Burns
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Includes the first three episodes of the documentary series tracing the history of baseball. Covers the origins of baseball in 1846 up to the White Sox scandal of 1919.

73% from 184 members

The American Civil War (3 discs) on DVD (1990)
Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Morgan Freeman, Arthur Miller
Director: Ken Burns
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A documentary which was five years in the making and investigates the American Civil War. With over 16000 archive photographs, lithographs, period paintings and newspaper features as well as battlefield tours.

74% from 1,615 member

Ken Burns' America: Huey Long (1987)
Starring: David McCullough, I.F. Stone, Huey Long
Director: Ken Burns
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The story of Huey Long is the quintessential drama of power and ethics. To his constituents, he was a populist hero. To his critics, he was the unscrupulous "dictator of Louisiana" who didn't break the law, but used the law to achieve his own ends. A towering figure on the political landscape, ..read more »

17% from 4 members
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