This is the BEST documentary of U.S. History on PBS. In fact, it’s the best ever! Ken Burns and his brother did an excellent job with this. The pictures, the stories, the music is worth seeing this over and over again. Even the actors lending their voices to this was an excellent idea! One of the actors in this is my favorite actor. Morgan Freeman.
I viewed this documentary when it first showed on WETA in 1990. It seem to have gotten better with the digital improvements. I don’t think that anyone could top this documentary not even Ken Burns himself. After “The Civil War” came on the first time, other stations used the same format that Burns used in their documentaries. It is amazing that no one else (not even network TV) wanted to carry this documentary! I’m glad that the PBS stations picked this up.
If I were a history teacher or had kids and home school, I would play the film in the classroom. I didn’t learn all that was in the documentary in school. This stuff wasn’t in the school books.