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America Through the Lens of Ken Burns

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Claire Williams

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Ken Burns

Presented by Allison Bishop and Claire Williams Howell Township Schools

What is a Documentary?

Definition: A work, such as a film or television program, presenting political, social, or historical subject matter in a factual and informative manner and often consisting of actual news films or interviews accompanied by narration.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

Ken Burns

One of the more Prolific Documentarians in America's History.

Ken Burns

29

He currently has produced 29 Documentaries.

29

5 More are in current production

His Works

His Style

Ken Burns incorporates Music, photographs and interviews to tell the story. Burns attempts to represent the Full Story by showing varied perspectives.

TIMELINE

Releases Brooklyn Bridge

1997: Releases Lewis & Clark

1981:

TIMELINE

1990: Releases Civil War

2017: Releases Vietnam

In His Own Words

Story Telling

Possible Eighth Grade Topics

  • Brooklyn Bridge
  • Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
  • Baseball
  • Not for Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
  • Jazz
  • Mark Twain
  • The War
  • The National Parks: America's Best Idea
  • Prohibition
  • The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
  • Jackie Robinson
  • Defying the Nazis: The Sharp's War
  • The Vietnam War

Possible Seventh Grade Topics

  • The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
  • The Statue of Liberty
  • The Congress
  • The Civil War
  • The West
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
  • The Address

Notable Quotations By Ken Burns about the Process

  • " It's a subtractive process. We take a piece of stone and sculpt it down to a work of art."
  • "It takes 40 gallons of sap to make a gallon of syrup."
  • "Emotional archeology."
  • "1+1=3 Those are the stories I am interested in telling."
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