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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]
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 ...
A movie we could really use right now [6] Additional reviews called the film "absolutely a must watch" by Deadspin; "amazing" by the Chicago Sun-Times; "one of the best documentaries to unveil at South by Southwest" by the team at Roger Ebert; and "one of the best films this decade" by ChicagoNow. [7] [8] [9] [10]
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.
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The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a 1996 television documentary miniseries about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and featured Ken Burns as executive producer. It was first broadcast on PBS on eight consecutive nights from September 15 to 22, 1996.
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 ...
Great Books is an hour-long documentary and biography program that aired on The Learning Channel. The series was a project co-created by Walter Cronkite and television producer Jonathan Ward under a deal they had with their company Cronkite Ward, The Discovery Channel , and The Learning Channel.