Beginning with a searing indictment of slavery, this first episode dramatically evokes the causes of the war, from the Cotton Kingdom of the South to the northern abolitionists who opposed it.

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His 6-part, 12-hour Revolutionary War project, already six years in the works, is slated to come out in 2025. While Burns ...

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And his fears came to a frightening reality less than 100 years later when the issue of slavery led to the outbreak of the Civil War. The US ... filmmaker Ken Burns explains to CNN, “the ...

In our race to rectify the past in the present, could Ken Burns in 2017 still make his stellar Civil War documentary ... in a leisured and affluent age (in part due to the accumulated learning ...

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