Ken Burns - "The West"

[Tommy Tainant]

Just come across this. Is it worth my time?
I would have given anything to have lived in the west. Beef and beans round the campfire, rounding up steers and into town on Saturday night, sleeping it off in jail.
What a time to be alive.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

SHANE is a great film.

 

[deannalw]

Just come across this. Is it worth my time?
I would have given anything to have lived in the west. Beef and beans round the campfire, rounding up steers and into town on Saturday night, sleeping it off in jail.
What a time to be alive.

You'd give anything to have lived in the west... for about 6 minutes.

It wouldn't take long to realize movies and books have romanticized the cowboy days to such a degree they bear little resemblance to how life really was in the good ole western days.

 

[deannalw]

Oh yeah... the Burns deal is probably good.

 

[Muhammed]

Just come across this. Is it worth my time?
I would have given anything to have lived in the west. Beef and beans round the campfire, rounding up steers and into town on Saturday night, sleeping it off in jail.
What a time to be alive.

There will be none of that nonsense from Ken Burns.

 

[fncceo]

Ken Burns is the preeminent documentary maker of our time. His documentaries are informative, relatable, and, more's to the point, quite well researched.

Burn's documentary "The West" is one of his best. He covers the westward expansion of America highlighting not just the whens and hows, but the whys.

I wholeheartedly recommend it.

 

[Harry Dresden]

Just come across this. Is it worth my time?
I would have given anything to have lived in the west. Beef and beans round the campfire, rounding up steers and into town on Saturday night, sleeping it off in jail.
What a time to be alive.

you would have to learn how to handle a gun tommy.....still want to live then?..

 

[Weatherman2020]

Ken Burns is the preeminent documentary maker of our time. His documentaries are informative, relatable, and, more's to the point, quite well researched.

Burn's documentary "The West" is one of his best. He covers the westward expansion of America highlighting not just the whens and hows, but the whys.

I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Except that he dwells on leftist talking points waaaay too long. Yes, we know the Civil war was about slavery. I don’t need to be reminded every 15 minutes. Yes, baseball once banned blacks. I don’t need to be reminded every 15 minutes and then a gloss over of the fact baseball did more for racial integration than any institution in the world.

 

[Pogo]

Ken Burns is the preeminent documentary maker of our time. His documentaries are informative, relatable, and, more's to the point, quite well researched.

Burn's documentary "The West" is one of his best. He covers the westward expansion of America highlighting not just the whens and hows, but the whys.

I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Except that he dwells on leftist talking points waaaay too long. Yes, we know the Civil war was about slavery. I don’t need to be reminded every 15 minutes. Yes, baseball once banned blacks. I don’t need to be reminded every 15 minutes and then a gloss over of the fact baseball did more for racial integration than any institution in the world.

You know nothing about baseball, do you.

 

[Weatherman2020]

Ken Burns is the preeminent documentary maker of our time. His documentaries are informative, relatable, and, more's to the point, quite well researched.

Burn's documentary "The West" is one of his best. He covers the westward expansion of America highlighting not just the whens and hows, but the whys.

I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Except that he dwells on leftist talking points waaaay too long. Yes, we know the Civil war was about slavery. I don’t need to be reminded every 15 minutes. Yes, baseball once banned blacks. I don’t need to be reminded every 15 minutes and then a gloss over of the fact baseball did more for racial integration than any institution in the world.

You know nothing about baseball, do you.

Other than playing baseball for decades until I blew my knee out while playing baseball, nada.

 

[Disir]

Just come across this. Is it worth my time?
I would have given anything to have lived in the west. Beef and beans round the campfire, rounding up steers and into town on Saturday night, sleeping it off in jail.
What a time to be alive.

Ken Burns is awesome and accurate. He is fantastic in bringing past voices and events into focus with accuracy. Cattle drives aren't all there is. If you are one of those people that has to have fast paced historical reenactment scenes then you won't dig it at all.

I'm female and there is just no way in hell that I would go back to that time period. I'm going to need some running water, air conditioning, washing machines, voting rights, plucked chickens. The good stuff.

 

[Pogo]

Ken Burns is the preeminent documentary maker of our time. His documentaries are informative, relatable, and, more's to the point, quite well researched.

Burn's documentary "The West" is one of his best. He covers the westward expansion of America highlighting not just the whens and hows, but the whys.

I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Except that he dwells on leftist talking points waaaay too long. Yes, we know the Civil war was about slavery. I don’t need to be reminded every 15 minutes. Yes, baseball once banned blacks. I don’t need to be reminded every 15 minutes and then a gloss over of the fact baseball did more for racial integration than any institution in the world.

You know nothing about baseball, do you.

Other than playing baseball for decades until I blew my knee out while playing baseball, nada.

Not the game itself --- the history.

All I know is I'm gonna take this

baseball did more for racial integration than any institution in the world.

--- and keep it in my pocket. Gonna come in handy again and again and again.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Ken Burns is the preeminent documentary maker of our time. His documentaries are informative, relatable, and, more's to the point, quite well researched.

Burn's documentary "The West" is one of his best. He covers the westward expansion of America highlighting not just the whens and hows, but the whys.

I wholeheartedly recommend it.

I think it would be difficult to disagree with that. I saw Jazz and Vietnam, they were impressive.

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Just come across this. Is it worth my time?
I would have given anything to have lived in the west. Beef and beans round the campfire, rounding up steers and into town on Saturday night, sleeping it off in jail.
What a time to be alive.

you would have to learn how to handle a gun tommy.....still want to live then?..

You gotta protect the herd.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Just come across this. Is it worth my time?
I would have given anything to have lived in the west. Beef and beans round the campfire, rounding up steers and into town on Saturday night, sleeping it off in jail.
What a time to be alive.

There will be none of that nonsense from Ken Burns.

Everything Ken Burns has done is perfect, historically and technically. My two favorites were The Civil War and Baseball.

 

[Wry Catcher]

Just come across this. Is it worth my time?
I would have given anything to have lived in the west. Beef and beans round the campfire, rounding up steers and into town on Saturday night, sleeping it off in jail.
What a time to be alive.

Ken Burns is awesome and accurate. He is fantastic in bringing past voices and events into focus with accuracy. Cattle drives aren't all there is. If you are one of those people that has to have fast paced historical reenactment scenes then you won't dig it at all.

I'm female and there is just no way in hell that I would go back to that time period. I'm going to need some running water, air conditioning, washing machines, voting rights, plucked chickens. The good stuff.

And indoor plumbing, esp. the water closet.

 

[skye]

yeah... Ken Burns "The West " is pretty good.



just to add....nothing to do with politics but everything to do with art.

 

[Wry Catcher]

yeah... Ken Burns "The West " is pretty good.



just to add....nothing to do with politics but everything to do with art.

And an insight into how we in the 21st Century are no different emotionally to our ancestors in the 19th century.

 

[skye]

yeah... Ken Burns "The West " is pretty good.



just to add....nothing to do with politics but everything to do with art.

And an insight into how we in the 21st Century are no different emotionally to our ancestors in the 19th century.

yes ....and I have to say I love Trump....and I agree with you.

 

[Picaro]

Burns slants his docudramas the way his financial backers and main audience outlet, PBS, wants him to, leftist BS but not so in your face moderates and some right wingers won't buy it during pledge drives. Lying by omission is the best strategy as far as marketing decisions go.