Ken Burns - Here's a little story I got to tell...

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Turns everything into a liberal lecture about how slavery is America's "original sin".

In seriousness he does a great general overview of most topics if you don't know much about them to begin with. As someone who could not give a rat's about baseball, I enjoyed the baseball doco. However, he gets the facts wrong too often for my liking. Using the baseball one as an example, he completely distorted the story of Ty Cobb to make him out to be basically Satan in a jersey. The truth is nowhere near what was portrayed in the documentary.

If you know the topic well, he probably leaves too much out to satisfy you. I didn't like the Jazz doco at all, even though sadly it's probably the most definitive one we will ever get. He got to the mid-60s and pretty much said, "this music doesn't appeal to me, therefore I am not going to acknowledge it even exists".
 
Shelby Foote was the only good part of his Civil War series, and I don't give a fuck what any butthurt Yankee faggots say. Even worse, he made people forget how shit PBS was and has been a major factor in keeping those retards relevant. Other than rerunning decent British shows, of course.
 
His cameo in "Gettysburg" mars an otherwise great film. I'm sure there were some faggy, effeminate-sounding officers in the Union Army, but his gay-ass voice with modern accent is completely out of place when all the other actors are doing their best 19th century accent and regional dialect.

He shows up at the climax of the film, as the staff officer who is pleading with General Hancock to get out of the line of fire.
 
Prohibition, The Dust Bowl, The Civil War, and Baseball are all great documentary series. I’m watching the first episode of The American Revolution now.
 
He's just redoing a great PBS series called Liberty!: The American Revolution, but he'll just add in more "and America is built on racism" into the mix. I'm sure this series will be well made and all of that, but as a student of the Revolution there won't be anything new to me, so many of the big name historians he'll use like Pauline Maier have died so he can't actually interview them but can slant their views, and we'll get lectured over and over about slavery and racism. I may watch it at some point, but then again I may not.
 
Womble of Wimbledon dijo:
Turns everything into a liberal lecture about how slavery is America's "original sin".
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Exactly what I was going to mention. It hardly even matters what the subject of the documentary you're watching is when they all have the same regular asides reminding the viewer that slavery was bad. Just tell me about baseball or Manassas, you lesbian-looking fuck.
 
RA-5C Vigilante dijo:
Shelby Foote was the only good part of his Civil War series, and I don't give a fuck what any butthurt Yankee faggots say. Even worse, he made people forget how shit PBS was and has been a major factor in keeping those retards relevant. Other than rerunning decent British shows, of course.
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Much of Foote's commentary was too based to make the final cut of the aired documentary.

By no means was he a dogmatic Lost Causer, but a lot of his takes are starkly at odds with the modern historiography of the war.

He was an unabashed admirer of Nathan Bedford Forrest, repeatedly refused to concede that defense of chattel slavery was the primary motivation of the secession movement and the average Southern yeoman farmer, and would not be baited into imposing modern ethical judgments and notion of an American national identity onto the Southerners of the 1860s.

Here are the full, unedited interview sessions that were filmed with Foote, something like 5 hours of footage.
 
Womble of Wimbledon dijo:
In seriousness he does a great general overview of most topics if you don't know much about them to begin with. As someone who could not give a rat's about baseball, I enjoyed the baseball doco. However, he gets the facts wrong too often for my liking. Using the baseball one as an example, he completely distorted the story of Ty Cobb to make him out to be basically Satan in a jersey. The truth is nowhere near what was portrayed in the documentary.
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I only watched the Baseball doc. hate it. Just a bunch of Northeast "intellectuals" and talking heads pontificating on the magnificence of the Yankees, (Brooklyn) Dodgers, and the Red Sox. Then you add in an entire chapter about the Nigger Leagues, and all the tall tales of that league, that are repeated without any question or pushback, and the absolute smear job on Ty Cobb... Burns can stick this doc, and his stupid Moe Howard hairdo, up his ass.
 
millais dijo:
Much of Foote's commentary was too based to make the final cut of the aired documentary.

By no means was he a dogmatic Lost Causer, but a lot of his takes are starkly at odds with the modern historiography of the war.

He was an unabashed admirer of Nathan Bedford Forrest, repeatedly refused to concede that defense of chattel slavery was the primary motivation of the secession movement and the average Southern yeoman farmer, and would not be baited into imposing modern ethical judgments and notion of an American national identity onto the Southerners of the 1860s.

Here are the full, unedited interview sessions that were filmed with Foote, something like 5 hours of footage.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=nS7ekJUwWuAhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=PYBZiiUUC4whttps://youtube.com/watch?v=B4jCSzXq0tU
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I always found it odd that a Yankee faggot like Ken Burns chose to base his Civil War doco on the Shelby Foote history which lionises the original Grand Wizard.

Not going to complain though, it means that the Civil War doco is about 95% less gay than it could have been.
 
I liked The Civil War when I watched it years ago, but when I tried a rewatch I had to stop after ten minutes because it wouldn't stop talking about slavery and how oppressed but awesome blacks are. In 2025 I just can't watch negro propaganda anymore. Life is too short.
 
Womble of Wimbledon dijo:
I always found it odd that a Yankee faggot like Ken Burns chose to base his Civil War doco on the Shelby Foote history which lionises the original Grand Wizard.

Not going to complain though, it means that the Civil War doco is about 95% less gay than it could have been.
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Sounds like a case of simpler times and lack of research. Foote apparently was highly recommended by another of Ken Burns's collaborators as a spot of local color and dialect, but he quickly stole the show.
 
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