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Mr. Burns described the five year project of making the television program, The Civil War. Broadcast during five evenings in October, 1990, twenty hours in all, it had the largest audience…

Coinciding with the re-release of his documentary, filmmaker Ken Burns talked about the lessons learned from the Civil War. He spoke briefly about the brutality of war, and emphasized his ho…

Filmmaker, Ken Burns, spoke at the American Historical Association Convention about his television documentary of Thomas Jefferson. Historians also joined the panel and discussed how films …