Ken Burns Loves America—and You Can, Too

Ken Burns Loves America—and You Can, Too

Ken Burns’s obsession with this country can be felt in all 234 hours of his roughly 40 films—including his latest mega-doc, The American Revolution. At a moment when we are once again arguing about the very definition of this place, Burns might be the one thing this 250-year-old nation of patriots can agree on.

Talking About A Revolution With Ken Burns – Garden & Gun

Over four decades of documentary filmmaking, Ken Burns has become almost as much of an American icon as his subjects. His sui generis style of bringing the country’s seminal history to life—the Civil War (his series on the subject catapulted him into the lexicon in the 1990s), the Roosevelts, the national parks, and Vietnam, among other topics—has become such a cultural fixture that Apple named one of its iMovie editing tools “the Ken Burns effe…