Ken Burns restoration of his Civil War documentary

[Anita]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-...eam-movie/

[Thomas Kearney]

I saw the special on PBS hosted by Sam Waterston, who played Lincoln. It was very good.

[LincolnToddFan]

I will never forget when The Civil War was originally broadcast on PBS in Sept 1990. I casually tuned in for the first night just because there was really nothing else on that I was interested in watching.

But from the very first minutes I was simply mesmerized. The series became a sensation, literally overnight. People were discussing it by the water cooler at work. There were call-ins to talk radio. It made the cover of Newsweek.

I was transfixed and horrified at the same time, I couldn't look away, at the same time I was depressed, sickened at the carnage. It forever changed the rather romanticized views I had held about this war. In fact it changed the way I feel about war, period.

[Anita]

(09-05-2015 02:22 PM)LincolnToddFan Wrote:  I was transfixed and horrified at the same time, I couldn't look away, at the same time I was depressed, sickened at the carnage. It forever changed the rather romanticized views I had held about this war. In fact it changed the way I feel about war, period.

I felt the same way Toia. One can understand the horror felt by those living at the time when photography told the ugly truth of war.

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(09-05-2015 02:11 PM)Thomas Kearney Wrote:  I saw the special on PBS hosted by Sam Waterston, who played Lincoln. It was very good.

Thanks! I'm in So. Calif. and it's being aired here on PBS from Sept. 7-11th.