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Benjamin Franklin is a 2022 two-part American documentary film directed and produced by Ken Burns that first aired on PBS on April 4 and 5, 2022. [1] The film chronicles the life of Benjamin Franklin, a polymath and Founding Father of the United States. The film is narrated by Peter Coyote and Mandy Patinkin stars as the voice
The following summary appeared in the 2001 PBS DVD Gold release of the film: "Sent by President Thomas Jefferson to find the fabled Northwest Passage, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the most important expedition in American history—a voyage of danger and discovery from St. Louis to the headwaters of the Missouri River, over the Continental Divide to the Pacific.
Ken Holt is the central character in a series of mystery stories advertised as being for readers between the ages of eleven and fifteen years old. [1] The series was published by Grosset & Dunlap between 1949 and 1963, [ 2 ] and the mysteries continued to be sold in the United States until at least 1966.
The series claims to survey jazz from 1917 up through 2001, but only one of the 10 episodes deals with music made after 1960. ... In this Academy Award-nominated film, Ken Burns, working off of a ...
Hemingway is a documentary film on the life of Ernest Hemingway produced by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick.It first aired on PBS in April 2021. [1]Burns documented both the public and private personae of Hemingway from his birth in 1899 to his death in 1961.
Dads is an American documentary film directed by Bryce Dallas Howard in her feature film directorial debut.The film follows a portrait of contemporary fatherhood.It features celebrity fathers including Ron Howard, Jimmy Fallon, Judd Apatow, Jimmy Kimmel, Will Smith, Hasan Minhaj, Ken Jeong and Kenan Thompson, and everyday men around the world.
According to a review in The New York Times, the series is "absorbing", is "structured as an ever-evolving medical detective story, but the filmmakers give it heart as well by juxtaposing the history lessons with present-day personal profiles of cancer patients", seems perhaps "too much like a promotional video for cancer researchers and ...
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History is a 2014 American documentary television miniseries directed and produced by Ken Burns.It covers the lives and times of the three most prominent members of the Roosevelt family, Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican and the 26th President of the United States; Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, the 32nd President of the United States, and fifth cousin of ...