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The film has received almost universal critical acclaim and has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 95%. [4] The film received the Grand Jury's Knight Documentary Competition at the 2012 Miami International Film Festival, [5] and was nominated for the Grand Jury's World Cinema – Documentary prize at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. [6]
The film also includes focus on the Congress's work during pivotal periods in United States history, including the Civil War, Civil Rights Movement, and women's suffrage. The documentary was released on DVD on September 28, 2004. [5] Footage of the Capitol from the film was later incorporated into Burns' 1990 documentary The Civil War.
Ken Burns, the legendary documentarian has examined nearly every era of American history. We ranked all of his films, from Baseball to The Vietnam War.
Thomas Jefferson is a 1997, two-part American documentary film directed and produced by Ken Burns. It covers the life and times of Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd President of the United States. In the film, Jefferson is portrayed as a renaissance man. Not only was he a dedicated public servant but was also a writer, an inventor and a noted architect ...
The latest Ken Burns documentary series “The U.S. and the Holocaust” airs this week on PBS. Here are some helpful programming details, as the schedule has changed slightly due to coverage of ...
Visually, Jazz was in the same style as Ken Burns' previous works: slowly panning and zooming shots of photographs are mixed with period movie sequences, accompanied by music of, and commentary on, the period being examined. Between these sequences, present-day jazz figures provided anecdotes and explained the defining features of the major ...
Now he’s the subject of documentarian Ken Burns' new two-part film, made with daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon, which has its debut Monday and Tuesday on PBS. Leonardo is ...
Vietnam in HD (known as Vietnam Lost Films outside the US) is a 6-part American documentary television miniseries that originally aired from November 8 to November 11, 2011 on the History Channel. From the same producers as WWII in HD , the program focuses on the firsthand experiences of thirteen Americans during the Vietnam War .