Shop at Amazon:The Civil War – A Film by Ken Burns
WPSU TV is revisiting Ken Burns’ The Civil War for the 20 year anniversary. You remember the Ken Burns documentary, it’s recognized as the grandaddy of documentaries and set new standards as how documentaires should be produced, and is considered one of the most important documentaries on American History.
When people describe documentaries using the “Ken Burns approach its an engaging experience different than the stale history books. If you haven’t watched this film, or if your children haven’t watched this film, you owe it to them as they will gain a deeper understanding of the Civil War and of American History.
The documentary is over 10 hours in length, consists of nine episodes and explores the Civil War through personal stories and photos. During the creation of the movie Burns makes extensive use of more than 16,000 archival photographs, paintings, and newspaper images from the time of the war. This resulted in the coining of the term the “Ken Burns Effect.”
These images were composed with cinematography, music, narration by David McCullough, anecdotes and insights from authors such as Shelby Foote, historians Barbara J. Fields, Ed Bearss, and Stephen B. Oates, and a chorus of voice acted characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Mary Chestnut, Ulysses S. Grant, Walt Whitman, Stonewall Jackson, and Frederick Douglass, who read quotes from the period.
Film Awards
The series has been honored with more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, People’s Choice Award, Peabody Award, duPont-Columbia Award, D.W. Griffith Award, and the US$50,000 Lincoln Prize, among dozens of others.
Shop at Amazon: The Civil War – A Film by Ken Burns
Why purchase this documentary from Amazon.com.
- There are 135 customer reviews on this film, and 126 of them are 4 and 5 star reviews.
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DVD Episodes:
1. “The Cause (1861)”
Prologue; THE CIVIL WAR Series Title; The Cause; All Night Forever; Are We Free?; A House Divided; The Meteor; Secessionitis; 4:30 a.m. April 12, 1861; Traitors and Patriots; Gun Men; Manassas; A Thousand Mile Front; Honorable Manhood
2. “A Very Bloody Affair (1862)”
Prologue; THE CIVIL WAR Series Title; 1862 A Very Bloody Affair; Politics; Ironclads; Lincolnites; The Peninsula; Our Boy; Shiloh; The Arts of Death; Republics; On To Richmond
3. “Forever Free (1862)”
Prologue; THE CIVIL WAR Series Title; 1862 Forever Free; Stonewall; The Beast; The Seven Days; Kiss Daniel For Me; Saving the Union; Antietam; The Higher Object
4. “Simply Murder (1863)”
Prologue; THE CIVIL WAR Series Title; 1863 Simply Murder; Northern Lights; Oh! Be Joyful; The Kingdom of Jones; Under the Shade of the Trees; A Dust-Covered Man
5. “The Universe of Battle (1863)”
Prologue; THE CIVIL WAR Series Title; 1863: The Universe of Battle; Gettysburg: The First Day; Gettysburg: The Second Day; Gettysburg: The Third Day; She Ranks Me; Vicksburg; Bottom Rail On Top; The River of Death; A New Birth of Freedom
6. “Valley of the Shadow of Death (1864)”
Prologue; THE CIVIL WAR Series Title; 1864: Valley of the Shadow of Death; Grant; Lee; In the Wilderness; Move By the Left Flank; Now, Fix Me; The Remedy
7. “Most Hallowed Ground (1864)”
Prologue; THE CIVIL WAR Series Title; 1864: Most Hallowed Ground; A Warm Place in the Field; Nathan Bedford Forrest; Summer, 1864; Spies; The Crater; Headquarters U.S.A.; The Promised Land; The Age of Shoddy; Can Those Be Men?; The People’s Resolution; Most Hallowed Ground
8. “War Is All Hell (1865)”
Prologue; THE CIVIL WAR Series Title; War Is All Hell; Sherman’s March; The Breath Of Emancipation; Died Of A Theory; Washington, March 4, 1865; I Want to See Richmond; Appomattox
9. “The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865)”
Prologue; THE CIVIL WAR Series Title; The Better Angels Of Our Nature; Assassination; Useless, Useless; Picklocks Of Biographers; Was It Not Real?
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