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"The Day My Interest in Race in America Was Born",,"In this video submission, Ken Burns recounts how formative experiences, both deeply personal and as a young person growing up in the midst of the Civil Rights era, have shaped his perspective on American history and have informed nearly all his documentary projects.
Trying to make sense of his own individual story within the nation’s collective reckoning with race, Burns reflects on how “we human beings seek always to find some frame to understand things.” The humanities, he continues, facilitate our finding “some meaning in it all precisely because of our inevitable mortality.” He believes that the work of history, particularly biography, helps us to organize our stories, and perhaps even to divine “the way that human beings are.” Whether unsettling or inspirational, history always proves useful.",,,,1963,"Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker",,,,,,ken-burns-race-in-america,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"",,,"Civil Rights Movement (United States),Documentary Films,Families,Filmmakers,Mortality,Newark, Delaware,Prejudices,Race Relations,Segregation,United States History",http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/3/25/burns-still-credit.jpg,"Moving Image","Ken Burns",1,0
"Why We Always Come Back to Abraham Lincoln",,"Ken Burns describes how lines from a historic speech given by 29-year-old Abraham Lincoln have “haunted and inspired” him for nearly 40 years. Expanding on what is revealed in those sentences, Burns discusses how they speak not only to Lincoln’s basic character and optimism, qualities that proved essential to his presidency. He goes on to note that Lincoln’s words, here and elsewhere, are suggestive of what is best in the American character.
“A handful of sentences” from Lincoln’s 1838 Springfield speech on national security left a deep imprint on the filmmaker’s own philosophy. For Burns, Lincoln’s narrative illustrates how, as a nation, we are “still stitched together by words and, most important, their dangerous progeny, ideas.” Time and again, Lincoln’s eloquence and vision has guided Burns as he enlists documentary film to tell the story of the United States and its citizens.",,"Abraham Lincoln's 1838 speech on national security delivered in Springfield, Illinois",,,"Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker",,,,,,ken-burns-abraham-lincoln,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"",,,"American Speeches,Civil Rights Movement (United States),Documentary Films,Filmmakers,History,Liberty,Lincoln, Abraham,National Security,Optimism,Oratory,Presidents of the United States,Slavery,Springfield, Illinois,United States History","http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/3/24/ken-burns-1800.jpg,http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/3/24/young-lincoln.jpg","Moving Image","Ken Burns",1,0
"Answering the Question “Who Are We?”",,"In this short video, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns recalls having Robert Penn Warren read a passage from his novel All the King’s Men during the production of the Huey Long portion of his documentary series “Ken Burns’ America.” He notes that it is voices like Warren’s that have helped animate his work, bringing to life his own journey and that which he has tried to share through his films.
For Burns, this particular passage from All the King’s Men—about dirt, creation, and man’s place and purpose on Earth—is a “wonderfully existential statement” that excavates the “emotional archaeology” of humanity. Warren’s writing serves as a compass that can help navigate what Burns calls “the specific gravity of our own self-destructive impulses.” In spite of the diverse range of his film topics, they are all united by a simple question: as Americans, who are we?",,"All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren",,1986,"Ken Burns, documentary filmmaker",,,,,,ken-burns-who-are-we,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"",,,"All the King's Men,Books & Reading,Documentary Films,Filmmakers,History,Literature,Long, Huey,United States History,Walpole, New Hampshire,Warren, Robert Penn",http://humanitiesmoments.org/files/original/3/23/burns-america-huey-long-200.jpg,"Moving Image","Ken Burns",1,0