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Ken Burns restoration of his Civil War documentary - Anita - 09-05-2015 10:16 AM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/09/04/25-years-after-the-civil-war-ken-burns-is-finally-making-his-dream-movie/
RE: Ken Burns restoration of his Civil War documentary - Thomas Kearney - 09-05-2015 01:11 PM
I saw the special on PBS hosted by Sam Waterston, who played Lincoln. It was very good.
RE: Ken Burns restoration of his Civil War documentary - LincolnToddFan - 09-05-2015 01:22 PM
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.
RE: Ken Burns restoration of his Civil War documentary - Anita - 09-05-2015 01:54 PM
(09-05-2015 01:22 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.
(09-05-2015 01:11 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.