America is stitched together by words, ideas and memory, according to America’s best-known documentary filmmaker.
“We are still stitched together by words and most importantly, by their dangerous progeny””ideas,” Ken Burns told a packed Massey Performing Arts Center Tuesday night at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.
Burns has been America’s chief documentarian for the past three decades. His extensive films on the Civil War, baseball, jazz and, most recently, World War II have built a reputation that once prompted historian Stephen Ambrose to say, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.”
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Filmmaker Explores What Keeps America ”˜Stitched Together’
America is stitched together by words, ideas and memory, according to America’s best-known documentary filmmaker.
“We are still stitched together by words and most importantly, by their dangerous progeny””ideas,” Ken Burns told a packed Massey Performing Arts Center Tuesday night at Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn.
Burns has been America’s chief documentarian for the past three decades. His extensive films on the Civil War, baseball, jazz and, most recently, World War II have built a reputation that once prompted historian Stephen Ambrose to say, “More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source.”
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