When Ken Burns does a documentary on Donald Trump, how long will it be?

#kenburns #trump

@Beatlesandworms I also recommend #MilesDavis: #TheBirthOfTheCool, #Netflix, about the very problematic man who created what most people think of when they think of jazz.

https://www.netflix.com/us/title/80227122?s=i&trkid=258593161&vlang=en&clip=81061414

This is as much a #musical #history of the #art form from the 50's to 70's, as the man.

#KenBurns' #documentary #series, #Jazz, is a great history of the #music from birth into the 1990's.

Great starting point for all interested in jazz.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/jazz/

#KindOfBlue https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lQf9Uo3BZliA5EJOh3xnV0CDTdnRgEO_o

I snapped this photo while chatting with a guy loading groceries into his his trunk. He was my elder (80-ish) from Connecticut. It was a typical "Things ain't what they used to be" lament between two old white men.

I mentioned the lost brass-stamping industry there during WWII. He did a double take. How the hell did I know that?

A soldier interview from #KenBurns' "The War" doc series.

It was weird/wonderful to let him know others knew what had been lost.

I talk to people, and most share.

Man, I love Ken Burns. Finally getting around to his The Civil War. So good. #KenBurns #TheCivilWar #CivilWar

Man, I love Ken Burns. Finally getting around to his The Civil War. So good. #KenBurns #TheCivilWar #CivilWar

Today, April 15th #MajorLeagueBaseball celebrates and honors it's greatest pioneer #JackieRobinson Since 1997 his number 42 has been retired from every team. #Jackie was the first black player in the #Majors and made a huge difference in #Baseball and away from the sport.
#BaseballHistory #BaseballMastodon

If you want to learn more about the man, beyond the baseball player, I recommend checking out the #KenBurns documentary.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/jackie-robinson/about-the-film/

@HistoPol

@unearth I suppose this is not available outside the US?

#pbs #theusandtheholocaust #kenburns #us #statedepartment #jewish

Watch Ken Burns illustrate how and why we are in such a dangerous time. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRWTkVdt/ #KenBurns #Politics #Florida #DeSantis #History #Fascism

#KenBurns and #MichaelMedved are #SeparatedAtBirth 😬🤦🏻‍♀️ #fakehistory
https://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2023/03/ken-burns-transitions-into-bitter-lefty.html

EBL: Ken Burns Transitions Into A Bitter Lefty Lesbian https://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2023/03/ken-burns-transitions-into-bitter-lefty.html
#KenBurns

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns discusses his new book, Our America: A Photographic History.

In this clip from CNN, Burns also calls out Florida Governor DeSantis for the new education bill which limits the history that can be taught in that state, and notes that he is currently working on a documentary about the American Revolution, stating that the bill "is an assault on the very liberties articulated by the Founders".

#history #KenBurns #Florida #DeSantis #education
https://youtu.be/z_6i8Fc9Zz4

@KindlyWizard @parkermolloy #Hitler and the #eugenics movement was pretty popular in America. According to recent #KenBurns documentary on the #Holocaust, Hitler got the idea of killing #Jews from the way we were killing and lynching #black people.

@YusufToropov wish #KenBurns would do a documentary about #HenryAaron like he did about #JackieRobinson

#Baseball
#Sports
#BaseballHistory

Less than thrilled.

#BigPublicTelevision had one of their minions post that one could watch #KenBurns film about #US and the #Holocaust if one had #PBSPassport

After fighting with my #CreditUnion to allow the charge and waiting 72 hours to get my login, I find out that no, I could purchase it on DVD or Blu-ray, neither of which I own.

Off to cancel my subscription - I'm not a watcher.

I cannot recommend high enough how incredible & import is the #KenBurns & #LynnNovick #documentary #TheVietnamWar. I am in no place to argue one way or another about whether they got "it" right or wrong (though I believe they got it right), but it is a profound window into what happened. So many tragedies. I've seen the film several times & am still brought to tears again & again.

Also, we think the USA is divided now, & it is, but watch the #film & consider today compared to then. Staggering.

Watching part 3 of Ken Burns’ The US and the #Holocaust. I think everyone should watch it. It is history that must be remembered, showing exactly what happened.

Especially those of us who are looking to convert to #Judaism should see it because although we may not have relatives who were direct victims, it will no longer be history of ‘those’ people but will be history of ‘our’ people.

We must answer, “why do you want to become a Jew?”

#mazeldon #JoiningTheTribe #Giyur #KenBurns #Jewdiverse

If the Midwest runs out of groundwater, the farming that is keeping the soil in place will be gone, and the dust bowls will return, worse than ever.

If you don't know about the dust bowl, read up on it, because it is one of the hidden negatives of climate change that is headed this way.

#KenBurns #DustBowl #documentary

https://youtu.be/ELCArPSAST8

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I've been sharing some of my #photography lately. These are from a 2004 event celebrating #FayVincent for his contributions to the #NECBL. Among those who attended were Hall of Famer #BuckONeil and filmmaker #KenBurns. #HallOfFame #baseball #MLB #Commissioner @baseball@a.gup.pe #CanonCamera @baseball@chirp.social

If you think you know about the #Holocaust you don't. If you think you understand the connection to the #AmericaFirst and #MAGA movements, you don't.

At least 90% of the images and footage in the #KenBurns documentary were things I'd never seen before. And even though I went to progressive schools during the 1960s and 1970s, most of the real story of US involvement in the genocide, was never taught to me.

Unfortunately, it's not remotely a stretch to say that the US was complicit in the Holocaust and responsible for perhaps 25% of the deaths of #Jews who could have been easily saved if not for US #antisemitism

#CharlesLindbergh was the #TuckerCarlson of the Holocaust.

Had we merely *processed the visa applications of the Jews trying to flee Hitler,* hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.

Instead we kept strict numeric quotas in place throughout the war, and even turned away a shipload of refugees that was forced to return to Europe. About 1/3 of the refugees on that ship died in the camps. That's only one of about 10 bombshells in the doc.

This is the stuff of literal #nightmares As in, if you watch this, you will definitely have actual nightmares.

Watch it anyway. Because if we don't learn these lessons, we might all have to relive it.

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/us-and-the-holocaust/

For fun, I watch PBS documentaries (a lot of royalty, #LucyWorsley, #AmericanHistory, #KenBurns), I let my kid watch because not a lot of cursing, but there's real life history involved.

Now when I start a documentary, the kid says, 'I love documentaries!'

It warms my nerdy heart. ❤️ 🤓