The Ken Burns PBS Documentary Thread
So I noticed that there is no thread here dedicated to talking about Ken Burns and his PBS documentaries.
He has a new series coming out September 17th called "The Vietnam War" It's 10 parts and 18 hours long. http://i.imgur.com/lvsCWEj.jpg Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides—Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as combatants and civilians from North and South Vietnam. Ten years in the making, the series includes rarely seen and digitally re-mastered archival footage from sources around the globe, photographs taken by some of the most celebrated photojournalists of the 20th Century, historic television broadcasts, evocative home movies, and secret audio recordings from inside the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. THE VIETNAM WAR features more than 100 iconic musical recordings from greatest artists of the era and haunting original music from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross as well as the Silk Road Ensemble featuring Yo-Yo Ma. Here's the trailers: <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3j-3Xi5BcKs" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/iWFzaUlZz-k" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The fact that this took 10 years to make this film is freaking amazing. I can't wait to see it. Since it's airing in the middle of the Fall season in Primetime, I decided in order to avoid to potential DVR conflicts to order the entire series on Blu-Ray. It comes out only 2 days after the premiere. I think it will be worth it. This is one aspect of history that I have a lot of interest in. I know documentaries aren't huge draws for discussion, but I don't want to limit this to just Burns' new film. If anyone wants to talk about any of his past films, feel free to do so here. The Jackie Robinson film that came out last year was very well done. Covered pretty much every aspect of his personal and professional life. I also own the complete series for Baseball on DVD and picked up the 10th Inning edition several years ago. I'm not a huge baseball fan, but if you know anything about the sport, it's an absolute must watch. On the horizon, Ken Burns is producing a new film about the life and legacy of Muhammad Ali. This article is from March: http://deadline.com/2017/03/ken-burn...bs-1202054710/ PBS announced this morning that Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon are producing and directing a two-part, four-hour documentary about boxer/civil rights figure Muhammad Ali. Production began a year ago in early 2016, and the filmmakers anticipate a broadcast premiere in 2021 on PBS. The fact that it's going to take 5 years to make this film show how meticulous he is with his writing and film making. I also saw some of the Roosevelts series from a few years ago. I got busy and never finished it, but I want to and I know it's still on Netflix. |
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Wow, I may have to tune in.
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Thanks for the update. I enjoyed all of his documentaries. Will catch this.
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I would expect a Burns treatment of this topic to get into the weeds politically and philosophically, but I hope they resist the temptation to overdo it. You would think that with 18 hours, they have had time to provide a proper military history of the war while doing the expected deep(er) dive into the social and political side of things. Either way, I will certainly be tuning in.
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I vaguely recalling watching part of Civil War when it aired. I think a teacher made us for history class.
I started Baseball a few years ago, but didn't get past the first episode. It was interesting, but slow. I would like to check out the series on the national parks. That's an area I don't know much about. |
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I greatly enjoyed "baseball" and I am not even a baseball fan.. lol..
Cival War is his best, in my opinion. |
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No surprise, but I love the baseball one. I find the history of baseball fascinating.
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I enjoyed the Roosevelt series. Really need to watch Baseball, but it's not on any of the streaming services, and I'm sick of buying media.
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I found The War to be the best. Two or three times I flat out cried.
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Go to your public library. The one around me has all kinds of documentaries and they have all of Ken Burns..
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I believe this will be epic and draw wide praise and awards. Looking forward to next month.
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Love all of Burns' work. I don't know if I'll watch the Vietnam series right away but I am excited to hear about the Ali doc. The Jackie Robinson doc was really good.
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Somehow, I've never seen a Ken Burns documentary. And I love/frequently watch documentaries. I'll watch.
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Wow. 18 hours! I look forward to this a lot. I loved the Roosevelts and Civil War is a masterpiece.
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Ken Burns spoke at the annual University of Texas Vietnam War summit last year and showed some of the footage for this. Incredible stuff as always, and he's a great speaker.
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Originally Posted by E Unit
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Ken Burns spoke at the annual University of Texas Vietnam War summit last year and showed some of the footage for this. Incredible stuff as always, and he's a great speaker.
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Keith David is a great narrator for Burns' documentaries. Great voice.
Loved his narration on the 10th inning film for baseball. I just started watching "The War" and was happy to see that he's also the narrator of it. It's too bad that John Chancellor passed away. I liked his narration on the original baseball series. |
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PBS On Demand has a 30 minute preview/behind the scenes available.
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Originally Posted by rw2516
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PBS On Demand has a 30 minute preview/behind the scenes available.
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Last weekend PBS aired a Ken Burns documentary called
"Ken Burns: America's Storyteller: American Sampler" documentary that was hosted by Tom Hanks. It was basically a 90 minute best of documentary from his past works. Don't know if there are anymore airings. I watched it and it was okay. They had intermittent commercial breaks to the local PBS station asking for donations. A little annoying. The breaks were promoting the Vietnam War documentary. |
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http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Vi...178770/#Review
Review of the new Vietnam War series on BD. If you plan to DVR this when the episodes air starting on the 17th, make sure you have lots of DVR space. The episodes are long. Here's descriptions with episode length Spoiler:
As I mentioned earlier in this thread, I ordered the set and will watch it on BD as opposed to the PBS airings. I figure this will be a very worthy long-term watch that I can watch casually at my own pace as opposed to worrying about DVR conflicts and letting 18 hours build up on my DVR. |
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Reminder for those who missed this. The new Ken Burns documentary "The Vietnam War" premieres tomorrow night at 8pm on your local PBS station. Episodes air Sunday through Thursday. As I posted above ^^^ episodes run about 90 minutes to 2 hours each. Remember, this is a 10 episode 18 hour series. Make sure you have plenty of DVR space. or if you prefer, you can purchase the entire series on BD this Tuesday: https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam-War-B...5594256&sr=8-1 |
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Another reminder - it starts in an hour or so at 8 P.M EST.
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Saw the first episode today. Very good. The French and the American intervention in Vietnam is so similar..
This is worth watching.. Learned a lot so far.. |
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Must see tv.. great first ep
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Ken Burns Documentaries just suck you in as it does a great job of telling both sides. Looking forward to the rest of this over the next few days.
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Pretty engaging so far.
I took a class about the Vietnam War in college about 15 years ago. The first 1/4 of the class, if not more, focused on the events described in the first episode. |
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I'm only a little more than halfway through the first episode and it has already presented more detail on the events and conditions leading up to the war than either Vietnam: A Television History (which is a pretty darn good series also) or Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War.
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Fantastic start. Usually something this long I take a look at my tablet for a few minutes, but I didn't do that once during this.
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The surround mix on this is incredible...
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Really gripping and it's just going to get more so. I'm not sure if I'll be up to watching this night after night as the subject matter hits too close to home to just casually watch and enjoy the program.
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Was able to catch both eps so far, man that Monk scene blew me away...
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Missed it the last two nights and finally watched it tonight. Amazing, just amazing!
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Loved episode 1. Riveting. It was crazy thorough and I loved how they went deep into what set in motion for the war to happen. It went all the way back to when the French occupied Vietnam in the late 1800s.
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If you missed any episodes, they can be watched right here. Either unedited or broadcast version:
http://www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war-...ited/episodes/ http://www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war/episodes/ The first 5 episodes are available to watch. |
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I don't think I am going to keep up the pace, only got through 1 hr of the 2hr Ep 3 last night, but I will keep working my way through this. The government lies and deception oh my....
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Originally Posted by DJariya
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If you missed any episodes, they can be watched right here. Either unedited or broadcast version:
http://www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war-...ited/episodes/ http://www.pbs.org/show/vietnam-war/episodes/ The first 5 episodes are available to watch. I watched the first 3 episodes live. It's good, but I think I will have to record the rest. I always have that problem with Ken Burns documentaries. Once you start watching them, you feel an obligation to finish them and it becomes a chore to watch every night for 10 days or 2 weeks. I think it's better to do as you said earlier and just get them on disc to watch at your own pace. I recently watched "Jazz" that way (dvd from the library) and it was much more enjoyable and interesting. I only made through a few episodes in it's original run. |
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I believe "The Vietnam War" documentary is available on DVD..
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Originally Posted by mphtrilogy
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The government lies and deception oh my....
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Originally Posted by tripplej
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I believe "The Vietnam War" documentary is available on DVD..
I bought the BD version and watched episode 1 yesterday as I mentioned. However, the BD is now sold out at Amazon. It's 10 discs total and each part is on one disc. |
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