“You mean Ken Burn’s DEPRESSING. Everything he touches - even baseball - makes you want to jump off a bridge. “
He is a great documentary movie-maker.
But I know what you mean. He imparts a solemnity to everything that does border on depressing.
The thing I most remember about his Civil War documentary was the endless, horrible, weeping fiddles. The part about Civil War medicine was really bad because he didn’t show much of anything about medical procedures and advances, but just concentrated on how horrible the wounds were.