Ken Burns, the ace documentarian known for his extensive deep dives into topics ranging from the Civil War to baseball, is tackling yet another piece of American history withCountry Music, a 16-hour docuseries thattraces the genrefrom its origins as a musical tradition rooted in ballads, hymns...
Yesterday I finished Ken Burns' 8-episode, 16-hour documentary 'Country Music' on PBS. It's a ten-star, must-watch, historical country music extravaganza. Ken Burns has never disappointed me -- delivering unique, cinematic documentary masterpieces covering topics like the Civil War, Baseball, ...
Ken Burns: Jazz Hemingway World On Fire Frontline Seaside Hotel Independent Lens First Peoples Celebrity Antiques Road Trip Reconstruction: America After the Civil War Antiques Road Trip Latino Americans Roadtrip Nation Vienna Blood The Roosevelts: An Intimate History ...
Another work from Ken Burns, “The Civil War” is a sweeping, nine-part docuseries chronicling a definitive and in-depth history of the American Civil War. When the series first aired on PBS in 1990, it drew in 40 million viewers, breaking records for the station. It went on to win 40...
Julie Andrews plays an Austrian nun during World War II in the Academy Award-winning film. When she comes to the villa of retired naval officer Captain Georg von Trapp to be governess to his seven children, she begins to realize how much the family means to her. The latter part of the ...
In 1921, Jimmy Gralton’s sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland on the brink of Civil War. Young people could come to the hall to learn, to argue, to dream… but above all to dance and have fun. As the hall grew in popularity, its socialist and free-sp...
Ken Brosky's The Proving feels much the same way as it builds heart-stopping terror through a protagonist on a life-threatening run through a forest, compelling its readers to LOOK behind her and face the beast. But the protagonist is running for more than her life alone: it's for the ...
In May 1865, the final month of the Civil War, the U.S. Army arrested and prosecuted a sitting congressman in a military trial in the border state of Maryland, though the federal criminal courts in the state were functioning. Convicted of aiding and abetting paroled Confederate soldiers, Ben...
"Resisting Sherman: A Confederate Surgeon's Journal and the Civil War in the Carolinas, 1865", by Francis Marion Robertson (and edited by Thomas H. Robertson, Jr. who is his direct descendant) fills in many of the gaps and adds tremendously to our knowledge of this region and those ...
There is not one nation that is free of this tyranny and is white controlled. There are groups and organizations that want to destroy us, this is very obvious. We are being given no escape. I would hate for people like yourself to get caught on the wrong side of this. Now would be ...