Ken Burns is one of my favorite storytellers. I have watched with interest many of his documentaries. I appreciate that this project did a deep dive into a history there is still, after all that has been written and documented, room for more examination. This includes the perspectives that influenced how and to what degree the US inte…
Ken Burns is one of my favorite storytellers. I have watched with interest many of his documentaries. I appreciate that this project did a deep dive into a history there is still, after all that has been written and documented, room for more examination. This includes the perspectives that influenced how and to what degree the US intervened. I am sure that I am not well versed in America's attitudes at the time.
However Mr. Burns blatant political bias revealed in this interview, and his tangling of the holocaust with today's current events left me wondering how much I could trust what he has included in the story. A shame really, that what could otherwise have been an important reveal of a different perspective on the holocaust, he chose to inject his world (US) view of the facts as he sees them. This is one of his documentaries that I plan to skip. And given what he revealed as his POV, I will watch his other documentaries with a more critical eye.
Ken Burns is one of my favorite storytellers. I have watched with interest many of his documentaries. I appreciate that this project did a deep dive into a history there is still, after all that has been written and documented, room for more examination. This includes the perspectives that influenced how and to what degree the US intervened. I am sure that I am not well versed in America's attitudes at the time.
However Mr. Burns blatant political bias revealed in this interview, and his tangling of the holocaust with today's current events left me wondering how much I could trust what he has included in the story. A shame really, that what could otherwise have been an important reveal of a different perspective on the holocaust, he chose to inject his world (US) view of the facts as he sees them. This is one of his documentaries that I plan to skip. And given what he revealed as his POV, I will watch his other documentaries with a more critical eye.