Blu-ray Review: The Vietnam War – A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (2017)
[amazon_link asins=’B06ZZC6G2B’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’9698a7a9-9a74-11e7-a64b-b7111468a8ac’]Ten years in the making, ten segments, and eighteen hours long, Ken Burns (Jackie Robinson, The War) and Lynn Novick’s Vietnam War looks back at the conflict from the beginning, and its consequences—political, social, cultural, and psychological–that are still being felt today. I watched the entire series over four days, […]
Ken Burns’ The Dust Bowl Coming to Blu-ray and DVD November 20
HOLLYWOOD, CA – Celebrated documentarian Ken Burns delivers an engrossing chronicle of America’s greatest environmental catastrophe with The Dust Bowl, arriving on Blu-ray and DVD November 20, 2012 from PBS Distribution and Paramount Home Media Distribution. The two-part, four-hour documentary offers a dramatic depiction of how human blindness to the balance of nature destroyed the […]
Blu-ray Review: The War – A Film By Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
As one of the most pivotal events in American and World history, there is no shortage of documentaries and films based on World War II. In 2007, Ken Burns and Lynn Novick debuted The War on PBS, a six-part 15-hour epic that explained the War through the stories of the men who fought it and […]
DVD Review: The Civil War – 150th Anniversary Commemorative Edition
Paramount | 1990 | 680 mins. | NR Though Ken Burns’ 1990 epic documentary, The Civil War has been released on DVD at least twice before, the new “Commemorative Edition” is worth buy if you haven’t already done so. It’s less expensive than previous editions and some retailers are selling it at half that price […]
Blu-ray Review: Baseball – The Tenth Inning
PBS | 2010 | 241 mins. | NR In 1994, Ken Burns 18 ½ hour documentary Baseball, first broadcast on PBS, took an extensive look at the game and its impact on American society. Divided into nine parts (each appropriately referred to as an “inning”, following the division of the game) each covers a topic […]