documentaries

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• SOURCE: PBS
  10/20/2020
  

  Frontline: Whose Vote Counts?

  Jelani Cobb investigates the Wisconsin primary election as a lens onto the ongoing struggle to protect voting rights. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/26/2020
  

  Re-Watching ‘The Civil War’ During the Breonna Taylor and George Floyd Protests

  by Gillian Brockell

  Ken Burns's Civil War documentary series sparked tremendous interest in history, but the series has a big Shelby Foote problem. 

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• SOURCE: Hyperallergic
  9/16/2020
  

  From MLK to Whistleblowers, the FBI’s Trouble with Dissidents

  The films MLK/FBI and Enemies of the State offer contrasting looks at government oppression.

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• SOURCE: The Metropole (Urban History Association)
  9/10/2020
  

  A Neoliberal Love Story, From Public Housing To Golf: A Review Of East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story

  by Courtney Rawlings

  Courtney Rawlings argues that a recent documentary on public housing has a blind spot for the politics that make decent housing precarious or even unavailable to millions.

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• SOURCE: Broadway World
  8/31/2020
  

  PBS Will Air "Driving While Black" Documentary on October 13

  PBS will air a historical documentary examining the issue of mobility and freedom to travel as aspects of American racism.

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Who’s Our Roy Cohn?

  by Andrew Feffer

  Two documentaries on the notorious lawyer and fixer portray Roy Cohn as a figure of evil, but don't examine the social and political context of power in New York City. 

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• SOURCE: Reel Chicago
  5/25/2020
  

  A City At War: Chicago During WW II

  The documentary, narrated by legendary journalist Bill Kurtis, is a comprehensive telling of nearly everything that happened in Chicagoland during World War II. 

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• SOURCE: Axios
  5/25/2020
  

  Ken Burns: Coronavirus Pandemic Is Crisis "On The Level" Of Civil War And Great Depression (Podcast)

  On this podcast, the filmmaker and historian Geoffrey Ward discuss American leadership during moments of crisis.

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• SOURCE: BET
  5/19/2020
  

  A New Documentary On Opera Singer Marian Anderson Is Coming To PBS

  A new PBS documentary will commemorate singer Marian Anderson's voice and her activism.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/5/2020
  

  The Truth About Stalin’s Prison Camps

  Vera Golubeva spent more than six years in one of Joseph Stalin’s gulag camps. Her crime? “To this day, I still don’t know,” she says.

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• 1/26/20
  

  BBC Whitewashes U.S. Refusal to Bomb Auschwitz

  by Rafael Medoff

  The new BBC documentary about the question of bombing Auschwitz deserves an award—for creative fiction. Through omissions, distortions, and “re-enactments” of conversations with imaginary dialogue inserted for effect, the BBC has made a shambles of the historical record concerning this important issue.

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• 12/8/19
  

  The Problem with Ken Burns' Country Music

  by Peter LaChapelle

  What would a Country Music that deals with country music’s complicated and often problematic political history look like?

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  11/11/19
  

  Poland asks Netflix to make changes to documentary about Nazi death camp guard

  Many Poles still refuse to accept research showing that thousands of Poles participated in the Holocaust in addition to the thousands who risked their lives to help the Jews.

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• 8/4/19
  

  Woodstock at 50: A Conversation with Award Winning Filmmaker Barak Goodman

  by Jonathan Montano

  Goodman's latest documentary, "Woodstock: Three Days That Changed a Generation," premieres on PBS August 6th. 

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  7/13/2019
  

  Film airing on PBS recalls city's dark deportation history

  The filming of "Bisbee '17," a documentary about what happened July 12, 1917, was a history lesson for residents recruited to play historical figures in the production filmed exactly 100 years later that weds documentary and collective performance.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  6/6/2019
  

  Boston couple donates $15 million to ‘help create the next Ken Burns’

  “I’d like to see there be not another Ken Burns but maybe 10 other Ken Burnses."

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• SOURCE: AP
  4/27/19
  

  PBS film ‘KOREA’ eyes social, political tolls of Korean War

  The film, a production of WETA Washington, aired Monday and examines the lasting social and political costs of the Korean War.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  

  Why We Need a New Civil War Documentary

  by Keri Leigh Merritt

  The success and brilliance of the new PBS series on Reconstruction is a reminder of the missed opportunity facing the nation.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/16/19
  

  Historians fight back as TV raids their research treasures for its shows

  Academics demand that producers ensure that dramas and documentaries credit their work

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• 11-18-13
  

  Does PBS's "JFK" Whitewash Kennedy's Flaws?

  by Sheldon M. Stern

  The new PBS documentary fails to rise above the imagery crafted by Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen in the 1960s.