"Burns has done more fucking podcasts than I ever thought possible, he says, nearing the end of nine-month promotional tour that included 40 cities, 80 screenings and hundreds of interviews. I think there are 340.1m podcasts, one for every American, and I've done half of them. Fortunately Burns is a force of nature, as loquacious behind the mic as he is prolific in the editing room."
"Like slow cooking in an age of fast food, The American Revolution is defiantly traditional, more redolent of The World at War, narrated by Laurence Olivier for British television, or Burns's own The Civil War, which launched a thousand sepia-tinted parodies to the plangent strains of a fiddle, than the era of streaming docs and podcast series. But for Burns, who has built a career chronicling strands of US history including baseball,"
"I said this to my co-director Sarah Botstein the other day, and she agreed: we won't work on a more important film, Burns reflects by phone from New York. Hopefully there are as important things coming up but this one has a singularity to it. Burns, co-directors Botstein and David Schmidt and screenwriter Geoffrey Ward drew upon thousands of books and other historical materials."
Ken Burns has become a cultural brand and prolific promoter, completing an exhaustive nine-month tour with dozens of screenings and hundreds of interviews. He produced The American Revolution, a six-part, 12-hour documentary developed over a decade and built from thousands of books and historical materials. Co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt and screenwriter Geoffrey Ward collaborated on the project. The series employs a traditional cinematic documentary style reminiscent of earlier landmark works and emphasizes deep narrative and archival approaches. Dozens of historians and scholars across fields such as slavery and Native American history provide on-camera commentary, reflecting broad scholarly engagement.
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