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Thread #105010   Message #2156372
Posted By: fretless
24-Sep-07 - 12:31 PM
Thread Name: Ken Burns: The War
Subject: RE: Ken Burns: The War
Try this for The Civil War.

As for The War, I think Burns did a good job in the first episode to make it clear that there was more going on than "What a good time we had in the 1940s killing the bad guys," but I think he still falls too easily into the trap of seeing WWII as "the good war." But this is only episode 1 and there was enough there to suggest hints of balance. I'm willing to hope that whole package will be worth watching (and, since it is on PBS, rewatching).