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Ken Burns
Ken Burns’ da Vinci Series Gets Dishy About Homosexuality
HANG IT IN THE LOUVREThis four-hour profile of the Italian prodigy will remind of the many, *many* things da Vinci accomplished in his lifetime, including a couple of scandals.
Why Ken Burns Will Never Go Hollywood
‘CAN’T MAKE THIS UP’The documentarian discusses the throughline from his most recent series about the Holocaust and his newest, “The American Buffalo”—and why he still believes in the power of truth.
Ken Burns Explains Why He Has a Photo With Clarence Thomas
SAY CHEESEThe documentary filmmaker was pictured alongside the Supreme Court Justice and billionaire David Koch.
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Why Ken Burns Exposed America’s Evils During the Holocaust
NEVER FORGETThe legendary documentarian opens up to Nick Schager about his new PBS docuseries “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” American anti-Semitism, and Hollywood caving to China.
Ken Burns Shows Us How Benjamin Franklin Shaped Our World
ICONThe celebrated documentarian’s four-part PBS docuseries, premiering April 4, explores the revolutionary Founding Father in all his glory.
What the Muhammad Ali Doc Misses About the Nation of Islam
‘DISAFFECTED BAPTISTS’NOI members took steps to let us know that our lives mattered without the slogans and protest marches. Older men reached out to boys to discuss history, current affairs, and life.
You Don’t Know Everything About Muhammad Ali Just Yet
BONUS PODCASTDocumentarian Ken Burns talks about his new film on Muhammad Ali and why one of the greatest athletes of all time is more relevant than ever.
James Jones Showed Grace in the Face of Hemingway’s Cruelty
HATE MAILHearing Hemingway’s famously nasty letter about her father read aloud in the new Burns and Novick documentary came as a rude shock.
How to Tackle a Bullying, Alcoholic, Racist Named Hemingway
CANON FODDERKen Burns and Lynn Novick portray an insecure, vain, depressed, unfaithful, visionary modernist in PBS’s “Hemingway”, and reframe his complicated place in the literary canon.
Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee: How to Understand the Pandemic
LOOKING BACKThe two-part PBS documentary “The Gene: An Intimate History,” produced by Ken Burns, takes a look at the history of genetics—and how it relates to today.
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