Ken Burns - The Civil War

Ken Burns is a master maker of documentaries.

it's having a re-run on PBS America at the moment; and i'm pretty sure Netflix have it as well for anyone interested.

yes WD, first episode was on yesterday just before i posted

WD tape it and watch the link i just put up

Thanks, just series linked it on Virgin

i'm sure you enjoy it. pumphol
perhaps enjoy is the wrong word.

Well if its half as good as the World At War or the Great War I'm sure it will be.

Yeah, it has a similar level of quality and depth of analysis as those series Pumphol. It makes up for the lack of moving film with very good use of photographs and narration of letters.

The 'main character' is Shelby Foote, a southern historian, who gives some excellent insights, though he was a bit controversial as considered somewhat partial to the Confederate cause.

I remembered from earlyage around the late 60's as their was a collection of very gory  collectors cards size of playing cards with really shocking depictions of civil war battles, I mentioned it once on here probably 10 years back not sure what the cards were called, maybe someone will remember them, gonna try to look it up.

Just started to watch this again - Episode 1, 15 minutes in..............In 1860, 1 in 7 of Americans was owned by another American.   

Mind you this war was far more than just about slavery.

Baphornet - "I suppose one masterpiece is enough in anyones lifetime"     You should see Baseball and the Vietnam War.    The bloke is close to a genius.

i did mean to say earlier that KB was 37 when Civil War was first shown. I would guess he was a lot younger when he started the epic

cotton a pall bearer as well; which of course is in much the same vein

Immediately Abraham Lincoln was elected the Civil War started.

The South always knew he was anti slavery

When it finished Lincoln was assassinated, all he knew was war.

ta Baphornet...

I think the men from both sides fought bravely. for their states.

Slavery was evil it had to be ended.

Although sadly it did not change the life of the freed slaves a lot....most had to continue working on the cotton

plantations for a low wage, with accommodation deducted and had to buy their own food.

It was that stupid assassination ruined everything, it meant there no reconciliation with the South as Lincoln intended.

who continued to view the black man oretty much as before.

ta pumphol

All his documentaries are wonderful Blackbarn but I agree - Baseball, Jazz, Civil War, Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson, Jackie Robinson and Vietnam were arguably his best - in no particular order. He is currently working on Country Music (I`ll give that one a miss) which is being released next year. PBS channel regularly show his one off documentaries.

Other Ken Burns documentaries:

Brooklyn Bridge (1981)
The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984)
The Statue of Liberty (1985)
Huey Long (1985)
The Congress (1988)
Thomas Hart Benton (1988)
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991)
Thomas Jefferson (1997)
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997)
Frank Lloyd Wright, with Lynn Novick (1998)
Not For Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (1999)
Mark Twain (2001)
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003)
The War (2007, 7 episodes)
The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Prohibition, with Lynn Novick (2011)
The Dust Bowl (2012)
The Central Park Five (2012)
Yosemite: A Gathering of Spirit (2013)
The Address (2014)
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War (2016)