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Ken Burns: The Civil War
Ken Burns - PBS Distribution, 2011.
Format: DVD video
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Ken Burns' Emmy Award-winning documentary brings to life America's most destructive and defining conflict. The "Civil War" is the saga of celebrated generals and ordinary soldiers, a heroic and transcendent president, and a country that had to divide itself in two in order to become... |
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Ken Burns: Country Music
n - PBS Distribution
Format: DVD
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Ken Burns's eight-part, 16-hour documentary series, COUNTRY MUSIC, chronicles the history of a uniquely American art form, focusing on the biographies of the fascinating characters who created it. The film follows the evolution of country music from its diverse and humble origins as it emerged,... |
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Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns
Ken Burns - PBS Paramount
Format: DVD
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Ken Burns's Baseball works magnificently on DVD, if only for the reason that scene selection in such a massive documentary is essential for viewing and re-viewing your favorite sections. The DVD menus are purely functional, and the timelines and baseball stats will appeal primarily... |
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Ken Burns: Jackie Robinson
Narrator:Keith David - PBS
Format: DVD video
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Tells of the story of Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a sharecropper's son who elevated an entire race and country when he broke Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947. The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational... |
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The Roosevelts. disc 1, Get action
Ken Burns - Roosevelt Film Project
Format: DVD video
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Profiles Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor as the most prominent members of the most important family in history. Through their stories, PBS chronicles the history they helped to shape, from the Square Deal to the New Deal, San Juan Hill to the Western Front, to the founding of the United... |
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KEN BURNS:PROHIBITION
Ken Burns -
KEN BURNS:PROHIBITION(3DISC)
Format: DVD video
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PROHIBITION, directed by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, tells the story of the rise, rule and fall of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The film starts with the early history of alcohol in America and examines the 19th-century temperance and progressive movements through the repeal... |
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Ken Burns - PBS
Format: Book
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The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The WarAmerica's national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation's most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved,... |
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Accompanying Books
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The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Dayton Duncan - Alfred A. Knopf
Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The WarAmerica's national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation's most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved,... |
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The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945
Geoffrey C. Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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The vivid voices that speak from these pages are not those of historians or scholars. They are the voices of ordinary men and women who experienced - and helped to win - the most devastating war in history, in which between 50 and 60 million lives were lost.Focusing on the citizens of four... |
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Jazz: A History of America's Music
Ken Burns - Knopf
Format: Book
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The companion volume to the ten-part PBS TV series by the team responsible forThe Civil War and Baseball.Continuing in the tradition of their critically acclaimed works, Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns vividly bring to life the story of the quintessential American music - jazz. Born in the black... |
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The Civil War: An Illustrated History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Print book
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The companion volume to the celebrated PBS television series, with a new preface to mark its twenty-fifth anniversary With more than 500 illustrations: rare Civil War photographs - many never before published - as well as paintings, lithographs, and maps reproduced in full color It was the greatest... |
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The Vietnam War: An Intimate History
Geoffrey C Ward - Knopf
Format: Hardcover
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From the award-winning historian and filmmakers of The Civil War, Baseball, The War, The Roosevelts, and others: a vivid, uniquely powerful history of the conflict that tore America apart--the companion volume to the major, multipart PBS film to be aired in September 2017.More than... |
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