'I love my country': Ken Burns on showing the dark parts of US history
Award-winning documentary-maker Ken Burns tells Katty Kay about his unique approach to chronicling history, from the Civil ...
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About the Film
In his Academy Award® nominated film Brooklyn Bridge, Ken Burns captures the physical majesty of this greatest of all achievements of the industrial age, the dramatic story of the larger-than ...
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Ken Burns
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost 40 years. Since the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge in 1981, Burns has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed ...
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Jack Johnson's Early Life
He said he traveled all the way to Manhattan to shake the hand of Steve Brodie, an Irish immigrant who claimed to have survived a leap in 1886 from the then-new Brooklyn Bridge. Johnson allegedly ...