Lynn Novick
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Based on the celebrated PBS television series, the complete text of an engrossing history of America’s least-understood conflict, “a significant milestone [that] will no doubt do much to determine how the war is understood for years to come.” —The Washington Post
More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its memory continues to loom...
More than forty years have passed since the end of the Vietnam War, but its memory continues to loom...
Pub. Date
2022
Description
This film "examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century. Americans consider themselves a 'nation of immigrants,' but as the catastrophe of the Holocaust unfolded in Europe, the United States proved unwilling to open its doors to more than a fraction of the hundreds of thousands of desperate people seeking refuge. Through riveting firsthand testimony of witnesses and survivors who as children endured...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
4) Baseball
Pub. Date
1994
Description
It is an epic overflowing with heroes and hopefuls, scoundrels and screwballs. It is a saga spanning the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the transformation of popular culture, and the unfolding of the national pastime. Here is the story of a nation at work and play. Experience it in ten thrilling "innings" from master storyteller and award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns.
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Tells the story of ordinary people in four quintessentially American towns - Waterbury, Connecticut; Mobile, Alabama; Sacramento, California; and Luverne, Minnesota - and examines the ways in which the Second World War touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America.
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
7) Prohibition
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
This videodisc explores the extraordinary story of what happens when a freedom-loving nation outlaws the sale of intoxicating liquor, and the disastrous unintended consequences that follow. The utterly relevant cautionary tale raises profound questions about the proper role of government and the limits of legislating morality. When the country goes dry in 1920, after a century of debate, millions of law-abiding Americans become lawbreakers overnight....
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A three-part, six-hour documentary film that examines visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography, a life lived at the ultimately treacherous nexus of art, fame, and celebrity, with carefully selected excerpts from his luminous short stories, novels, and non-fiction, viewers will see beyond the faȧde of the public man, becoming...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, 14 hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore's birth in 1858 to Eleanor's death in 1962. Over the course of these years, Theodore would...
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The game of baseball continues to reflect the complicated country that created it. Players and owners wage a battle over money and power; Cal Ripken becomes the game's new Iron Man; sluggers Mark McGwire, Sammy Sosa, and Barry Bonds do things that have never been done before; the Yankees build a dynasty, while their arch rivals, the Red Sox, stage the greatest comeback in history. In September of 2001, baseball offers the hope that things will one...
13) American lives
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Collection of seven biographical documentaries from Ken Burns. Covers Thomas Jefferson, Lewis and Clark, Frank Lloyd Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, Horatio Nelson Jackson, and Jack Johnson.
Series
Ken Burns PBS Home Video volume 9
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.
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Ken Burns PBS Home Video volume 5
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.
Series
Ken Burns PBS Home Video volume 6
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.
Series
Ken Burns PBS Home Video volume 1
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.
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Ken Burns PBS Home Video volume 4
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.
Series
Ken Burns PBS Home Video volume 10
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Traces the origins and history of jazz, focusing on the individual musicians who helped shape its development.
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