The War by Ken Burns

[tenaya]

I'd missed that this was being shown but discovered my local PBS was showing most of it today during a begathon. Seven episodes of at last two hours each, I think. Oh boy. It's quite a commitment of time and I know I have a strong aversion to hearing how nasty human beings are, but I'm gonna try to watch it all.

I've now seen about an hour of it and I have to say it is amazing and I think it is very important to view this. He is using his usual documentary style to tell the stories of a few people from four US towns. The photos are of course, horrific.

For the US, you get to see/hear how rural and unprepared we were and see the gradual change; hear the reasons why.

Anyway, I hope you might give this show a chance.

Comments

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

Have you watched any more of it now? I finished Part 4 earlier tonight, and will probably watch a bit more in a little while before I go to bed.

I've really enjoyed watching this.

[geminia905.livejournal.com]

Mom's been watching it from near the beginning, if not the first episode, and I've watched a couple episodes now and really like it.

I'm hoping to convince the director to get it for the library whenever it's available on DVD. I wish they'd had it last fall when we were doing a lot of WWII events.