Article: What's so bad about Ken Burns?
Here's an interesting article I just found about the tension between professional historians and Ken Burns:
https://www.chronicle.com/article/What-s-So-Bad-About-Ken/241364
Thoughts?
He knows nothing about the subjects he makes documentaries about. He relies upon people like Wynton Marsalis, who are so biased they provide him with a distorted version of history. Not only that, but he has a very silly girly haircut.
shareAny documentary filmmaker will include experts in their films. But it's silly to say that "he knows nothing about the subjects he makes documentaries about." He may know little when he begins a project, but his research process is extensive.
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