I thought his work on the Civil War and Baseball were both stellar.
The pinnacle of historical documentary.
In spite of the fact he’s a commie, through and through.
Makes you wonder how he will reconcile himself to the fact that the Communists are (and were) brutal murders on a massive scale. They make the Nazis looks small in comparison.
his jazz history is also awesome, and I am enjoying his dust bowl right now.
that said...I would like someone with knowledge to contribute here...they say absolutely with no equivocation that the dust bowl was 100% man made. they give good evidence for that, for sure...but still, it has a little bit of a propagandish feel to it.
would anyone here be able to clarify what I suspect is the truth, that it was an ecological disaster which the wheat rush did not help, but which wasn’t 100% manmade? I’d like to hear something on that..
I’ve seen better more accurate documentaries done on the Civil War. What separates Burn’s series from the others was the fact he it gotten underwritten & shown on PBS, so he got to make the bigger PR splash to the mostly non-reading uninterested in history (unless spoon-fed & jazzed up with nice music! Which he did!) TV crowd. Now this crowd does think its sophisticated & intellectual since it watches PBS. Then the other part of the Burn’s documentary that makes it stand out was the late Shelby Foote. He made an otherwise mediocre series worth watching.
Agreed. I still go back and watch segments of his Civil War series. I’ve got no use for his more recent propoganda, and I can already tell from the promos that this Vietnam series is going to be another Uncle Ho Victory Dance event.