The War--Ken Burns

[dante1]

I hope many of you guys are watching or recording
K Burns' "The War,". I have seen three episodes and
they are interesting. Personal stories from people in four
different towns in the US. K Burns is probably America's
best living storyteller. Public television, of course.

[JBC77]

Saw a few episodes on PBS myself. I love history and this is from a unique perspective. Kens Burns makes excellent documentaries, not sure if many people out here know of him.

[dante1]

Then you probably saw and have his book "Civil War,". I taught right from that book. What a great story this guy tells. He promised never to do another war doc after that. Lucky for us he relented.

[JBC77]

I read it when I was up @ Uconn, it was part of a history course I took as an elective. That was pretty much how I first learned of Burns. A week or two ago they did a spread on him in the local paper, detailing his upcoming series. I'm a big fan of documentaries in general, Burns stuff is just better than everyone else.

[dante1]

I read it when I was up @ Uconn, it was part of a history course I took as an elective. That was pretty much how I first learned of Burns. A week or two ago they did a spread on him in the local paper, detailing his upcoming series. I'm a big fan of documentaries in general, Burns stuff is just better than everyone else.

JBC You're correct my friend, I am glad other people love his work as I do. But, I am sure there are millions of us.

This series will probably be published as a book also, I hope.

[JBC77]

JBC You're correct my friend, I am glad other people love his work as I do. But, I am sure there are millions of us.

This series will probably be published as a book also, I hope.

Yeah....they mentioned in the article, that PBS has contracted him exclusively for a number of documentaries in the future.

[marke4]

I thought it was excellent myself and I'm only 25. I would think older people who are more familiar with that time period would enjoy it even more.

[regularguy]

I've been watching "The War." Excellent. I love Burns' work.

I highly recommend "Baseball" to all you sports enthusiasts.

Also, "Jazz." Also, the one about Mark Twain. And the one about Lewis and Clark. And the one about the Statue of Liberty. Those are the ones I know. All terrific.

[Willie Bee]

K Burns is probably America's best living storyteller.

Couldn't agree more, absolutely love the way he tells a story, probably as close to anything we have to a 'time machine' in how his works really put people back in the times he's documenting. The accounts of the two Phillips' from Mobile have been solid in this story so far, the interviews with various Japanese-Americans, including Daniel Inouye, have been great, and how can anyone not feel like they lost a brother when listening the Ciarlo siblings describe the loss of theirs?

Absolutely fascinating.

[JoshW]

A writer I know is doing writeups on each episode. Is a good read.

http://www.documentaryfilms.net/index.php/category/the-war

[Tchocky]

I programmed my DVR to record all the episodes but I had to delete them because it was taking up too much space. I'll just buy the DVD's when it comes out. I see that Burns is using actor David Keith for the narration. This guy has a great voice.

[BrentCrude]

I made sure my dad saw it but I probably won't.

I have about a dozen close relatives that were in WW2 and most have recently passed on but there are still a couple left.Over the years I heard their stories and alot of them have the war wounds to back the stories up.As a kid I was probably a square growing up in the Viet Nam era where I didn't question the government's motives as to why they got into that entaglement.Looking back at that war it was a mistake in that you realize this country went there without the intention of winning by using bigger bombs instead of hand to hand combat.All the Jane Fonda's were wrong too when they wanted the world commies to turn another country commie and they were all cheerleaders for the spread of communism.Do you think Jane wanted the USSR not to oppress as many people as they could?They didn't care if 10's of thousands of our guys were killed.

So now to WW2.Most people are taught in school that it was Evil Hitler against the world.Of course Hitler was a violent,dangerous and evil idiot but he was a useful idiot to FDR and the new world order nation builder bankers.There were plenty of chances to rub Hitler out but as was the case with Sadam Husein,they chose not to do it and go to war.The business of the military complex got us artificially out of a depression.FDR was told by Hitler before the war started that we as a country could take all the Jewish people but FDR even being half Jewish didn't want them.

Then what about FDR knowing that Pearl Harbor was to be bombed.This is no longer a black helicopter whacko conspiracy theory,it's a real possibility.Either he was too dumb to be president not knowing about it before it happened or too evil by letting it happen to change the mindset of the public to want to go to war.

Then you have FDR's close alliance with Stalin.Stalin was every bit as evil,violent,crazy and dangerous as Hitler was killing many more of his own people than Hitler killed Jews.So after we help Russia in WW2 they want to turn the world communist and we have to spend trillions on the cold war.Then we ended up in Korea and Viet Nam anyway at war.Then what about the Marshall Plan where we as a country took it upon ourself to pay to rebuild europe.

It was good that people believed what they were told and respected whacko authority figures like FDR back then because they thought they were fighting the good war.At least you didn't die in vein.So now they call that generation the greatest generation.Nothing against these people but what about all the generations after who are still paying the price of our helping the USSR igniting the cold war resulting in Korean War casualties,The Viet Nam casualties,The Iraq casualties and the baby boomers and younger generation of today who live in a litterally bankrupt country because of FDR's master plan.

Hell,WW1 never ended and it just became WW2.The new world order banking system that FDR was a part of helped put pre WW2 Germany in economic dire straights where you needed a bushel of money to buy a loaf of bread so it's little wonder the people there went along with an absolute nut case like Hitler who promised them that he would turn things around.It's sort of like placing all your hope on FDR that getting into WW2 needlessly would get you out of the depression.

[curious]

Then you probably saw and have his book "Civil War,". I taught right from that book. What a great story this guy tells. He promised never to do another war doc after that. Lucky for us he relented.

I'm a southerner and I did not appreciate the way he ended that book, "Civil War". The south lose to the yankees? No way. The south will never give up!

[jolub]

This is a great show. I wish I would have copied it.