Ken Burns: Inhabiting History
“More Americans get their history from Ken Burns than any other source,” historian Stephen Ambrose said. Indeed, Burns’s films are perhaps the most recognizable, and among the most widely seen contemporary American documentaries.
Burns specializes in taking well-researched, comprehensive historical narrative out of academia and bringing it to life as artful, dramatic storytelling. The status and familiarity his work has obtained is due in part to the sheer length of his historical series, but it’s also because he has always produced them for the Public Broadcasting Service’s potential audience of 100 million ...
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