This is the second part of a 13-episode German documentary mini-series, covering the history of Christianity from its beginnings to the modern-day. Although it’s a German production, the narration is in English. […]
DVD Review: 2000 Years of Christianity Episode I – From Jesus to Christ
This is the first part of a 13-episode German documentary mini-series, covering the history of Christianity from its beginnings to the modern-day. Although it’s a German production, the narration is in English. […]
Mark Twain – A Documentary by Ken Burns
He wrote as though there had been no literature before him… as though he had discovered the art of telling a story about these folks that inhabit this continent… And that there […]
New York: The City and the Country – A Documentary Film by Ric Burns
Famed documentarian Ken Burns’ brother embraces the genre with this wonderful offering about the city I grew up just outside of; a place I will always consider my first home: New York. […]
Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery by Ken Burns
I can’t remember exactly how much time was actually covered in history class about the journey of Lewis and Clark to explore the land purchased from Napoleon and France by President Thomas […]
The Civil War: A Documentary by Ken Burns – A Definitive Portrait
It is well that war is so terrible… we should grow too fond of it… – Robert E. Lee watching the battle of Fredericksburg. An anecdote about Wilmer McClain, who moved his […]
DVD Review: Ken Burns’ The Statue of Liberty – Liberty’s Too Precious a Thing to Be Buried in Books…
This was perfect timing. I’d loaded up my queue at Netflix with Ken Burns documentaries last year after finally viewing all of the Baseball boxed set and seeing just how terrific these […]
Review of the Documentary 9/11: Many Years Later, Reflections
I am a New Yorker There have been many essays circulating the Internet since the events of September 11, 2001. One of the really good ones was with that title. (For an […]
DVD Review: Ken Burns’ Baseball – Exploring Baseball’s Impact on American History
It’s been a tradition in my house that every year as spring training begins, I break out the Ken Burns documentary, Baseball. I owned it on VHS, then on DVD. Now it’s […]
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