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Ken Burns
November 22, 2022
Scott Borchert
Ken Burns’s Long, Hard Look at American History
“Our America” presents a mournful, terrible, exhilarating, and honest tour of the United States.
September 16, 2022
Michael Tomasky
“We Did Know”: Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on
The U.S. and the Holocaust
The new documentary, which debuts Sunday on PBS, digs deep into what FDR and the American public did—and did not do—to stop the genocide.
Video is available for this article
September 17, 2021
Michael Tomasky
“The Most Beloved Man on the Planet”: Ken Burns on Muhammad Ali
TNR editor Michael Tomasky talks with the acclaimed filmmaker about his new project, airing Sunday on PBS.
Video is available for this article
May 13, 2021
Magazine
Win McCormack
The Undefeated
Ernest Hemingway’s one enduring character? Ernest Hemingway.
November 1, 2017
Jeet Heer
Let’s Relitigate the Civil War
There can be no "compromise" with the false view of America's past from Trumpists and pop historians alike.
September 19, 2017
Alex Shephard
The Insidious Ideology of Ken Burns’s
The Vietnam War
Burns and co-director Lynn Novick take a "many sides" approach to history at a time when "many sides" is a tool of obfuscation.
December 18, 2015
Jeet Heer
Ken Burns’s
Star Wars
would be Empire apologia.
December 21, 2012
Sean Wilentz
Lincoln in Hollywood, from Griffith to Spielberg
October 3, 2011
Michael Kazin
What the Temperance Movement and the Anti-Abortion Movement Have in Common
May 20, 2011
David Thomson
David Thomson on Films: ‘The Arbor’
April 2, 2007
Stanley Kauffmann
Crimes Revisited
March 10, 1997
Sean Wilentz
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Thomas Jefferson
How a slaveholder and ideologue was also a great democrat.
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