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KEN BURNS


'Ear Hustle' podcast co-host is free from San Quentin prison

A co-host of “Ear Hustle,” the Pulitzer Prize-nominated podcast produced behind bars, has been released from San Quentin State Prison, a year after California’s governor commuted his sentence.

Holocaust memorial: Kristallnacht photos were already seen

Israel’s Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial has acknowledged that a series of photos from Nazi Germany’s 1938 pogroms against Jews have been seen and published before, revising a claim it made when releasing the photos last week.

'Philly on Fire,' 'Bella!' tie for Library of Congress prize

Documentaries about feminist leader and politician Bella Abzug and a deadly 1985 Philadelphia police bombing are the winners of this year’s Library of Congress film prize.

Cha-ching! Biden embraces his election-year fundraising role

President Joe Biden is picking up the pace of his high-dollar fundraisers for Democratic candidates and party committees in the closing weeks before Election Day in November.

This week on "Sunday Morning" (October 2)

A look at the features for this week's broadcast of the #1 Sunday morning news program

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The U.S. and the Holocaust Reveals the Dark Limits of Democracy

Ken Burns’s docuseries confronts a topic that many Americans of every political stripe prefer to avoid: responsibility.

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LA Times op-ed claims America 'fueled the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust'

An opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times argued that Americans originally helped to promote the rise of Nazism and even the Holocaust in the 1930s and 1940s.

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New this week: 'The Handmaid’s Tale' and 'Goodnight Mommy'

This week’s new entertainment releases include albums from Little Big Town and Marcus Mumford, “The Handmaid’s Tale” returns with high stakes for the future of Gilead, and twin brothers go to their mother’s house for a stay but find something is off about her in the film “Goodnight Mommy.”.

America's failures in response to the Holocaust

A new PBS documentary series by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," examines how United States policy was not always an open door for Jews in Europe who sought to flee Nazi persecution before and during World War II.

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David McCullough, Pulitzer-winning historian, dies at 89

David McCullough, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose lovingly crafted narratives on subjects ranging from the Brooklyn Bridge to Presidents John Adams and Harry Truman made him among the most popular and influential historians of his time, has died.

New this week: 'Only Murders in the Building,' 'More Power'

This week’s new entertainment releases include a new album from Imagine Dragons, the reuniting of “Home Improvement” sitcom buddies Tim Allen and Richard Karn for “More Power” and the return of Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez as unlikely crime-solving New York City neighbors in Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building.”.

Book review of Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past by Richard Cohen

Filmmakers, novelists and photographers, among others, also shape our collective memory, Richard Cohen writes.

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New this week: Camila Cabello, Tony Hawk and 'Tokyo Vice'

This week’s new entertainment releases include Camila Cabello's third album, a documentary about the life of professional skateboarder Tony Hawk, and Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe starring in “Tokyo Vice,” a HBO Max crime drama.

Ken Burns discusses his Muhammad Ali documentary - "The Takeout"

Burns says that he wanted to cover Ali's life from his boyhood in segregated Louisville until his death five years ago of Parkinson's Disease.

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Q&A: Ali gets the Ken Burns treatment in 4-part PBS film

The number of movies, documentaries and other entertainment vehicles made about Muhammad Ali would make it seem that there’s not much left to offer.

Award-winning Civil War historian Stephen Oates dies at 85

Stephen Oates has died after a life that saw him become an award-winning Civil War historian who wrote biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Clara Barton, William Faulkner and others.

Luke Combs, Dan + Shay celebrated by peers at ACM Honors

Dan + Shay, Luke Combs, Rascal Flatts and more country artists celebrated alongside prominent songwriters, producers and industry leaders at the Academy of Country Music Honors awards show.

PBS And Ken Burns Vow To Do Better On Diversity But Critics Aren't Convinced

PBS has announced $11 million in grants to boost diversity among documentary filmmakers months after an open letter accused the service of unfairly favoring white creators.

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PBS chief: Diversity efforts not all 'our best,' changes set

The chief executive of PBS says the public broadcasting service has fallen short on some aspects of diversity.

Keith Urban, Carly Pearce to play ACM Honors

Country stars Keith Urban, Toby Keith and Carly Pearce will perform at the Academy of Country Music Honors this month, to honor Loretta Lynn, Dan + Shay and Luke Combs among others.

Ken Burns on America, selling his first film, PBS's long deadlines and more

The filmmaker known for his exhaustive documentaries on American subjects gives Scott Pelley a glimpse into how his films are made, the message he wants to convey with them and how he became the person he is today.

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In 'Summer of Soul,' a lost history reborn to play loud

In Questlove's documentary “Summer of Soul” a musical flood, too long dammed up, is finally released.

"Sunday Morning" Full Episode 4/11

Hosted by Lee Cowan. In our cover story, Erin Moriarty reports on the Sackler family, whose name has become a controversial flashpoint in the opioid epidemic. Also: John Dickerson sits down with former House Speaker John Boehner, who has written a scorching memoir, "On the House"; Mark Whitaker interviews documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about their PBS series on Ernest Hemingway; Lesley Stahl talks with Washington Post columnist Karen Tumulty about her new biography of first lady Nancy Reagan; Michelle Miller interviews Jamie Foxx and his daughter, Corinne, who are collaborating on a new Netflix comedy series, "Dad Stop Embarrassing Me!"; and Mark Phillips looks back on the life of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who died this week at age 99.

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Vast archives at JFK Library help bring 'Hemingway' to life

A new documentary on the life of Ernest Hemingway is shedding new light on one of America's greatest writers.

Documentarians Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on filmmaking in a pandemic

On "Facing Forward," Margaret Brennan talks with documentary filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick about filmmaking during a pandemic and their new documentary Hemingway

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PBS chief defends filmmaker Ken Burns, touts diversity

FILE - Ken Burns, director of the PBS documentary series "Country Music," takes part in a panel discussion during the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour on July 29, 2019, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Speaking Monday, Feb. 1, 2021, to the Television Critics Association in a virtual Q&A, PBS chief executive Paula Kerger rejected a filmmakers claim that public TVs long relationship with Burns has come at the expense of diversity. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP, File)LOS ANGELES – The chief executive of PBS rejected a filmmaker’s argument that public TV's 40-year relationship with documentarian Ken Burns has come at the expense of diversity. “We create lots of opportunities for many filmmakers,” Kerger said. "The stuff that’s coming up is incredibly diverse in every sense of the meaning of that word,” Burns said.

'60 Minutes' keeps on the news and is rewarded by viewers

FILE - "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl poses for a photo in her office at the "60 Minutes" offices, in New York on Sept. 12, 2017. It's not the first time that's been said about “60 Minutes” since its 1968 debut. After executive producer Bill Owens turned the show primarily over to COVID-19 coverage last spring, “60 Minutes” has returned to its traditional format while being focused on being timely. “60 Minutes” this fall has featured interviews with fired government cybersecurity chief Chris Krebs, former President Barack Obama and poisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. Original executive producer Don Hewitt often ran “60 Minutes” as an island unto itself.

Yusef Salaam writing memoir about his wrongful imprisonment

NEW YORK – One of the five teens wrongly imprisoned for the assault on a Central Park jogger has a memoir coming out in the spring. The five Black and Latino teens were coerced into confessing to a rape they didn’t commit in 1989. Ken Burns made a documentary about them and Ava DuVernay directed a Netflix series. “One of the most powerful lessons I learned while being wrongfully incarcerated was that instead of going through something, I was going to grow through something," Salaam said in a statement. “Punching the Air,” co-written by Ibi Zoboi, came out in September.

11/8/2020: Counting the Vote, Operation Warp Speed, Ken Burns

11/8/2020: Counting the Vote, Operation Warp Speed, Ken Burns Pennsylvania election officials detail their vote count, share experiences from election week; Then, planning the distribution of a future COVID-19 vaccine; And, Ken Burns speaks with Scott Pelley about how his films are made, the message he wants to convey with them and how he became the person he is today.

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Ken Burns on America, selling his first film, PBS's long deadlines and more

Ken Burns speaks with Scott Pelley"Us," the American struggle to forge union from diversity, has been Ken Burns' obsession since he was 11 years old at the end of this lane in Ann Arbor, Michigan. But it wasn't until his seventh that America returned Ken Burns' affection. Ken Burns' moment came in 1981 with his first subject, the Brooklyn Bridge, which no one thought was a good idea. Ken Burns: And he said, "I bet you blew out your candles as a child, as a boy, wishing she'd come back?" They are, together, the story of a people straining for union, a theme Ken Burns has explored from his very first film which was, after all, about a bridge connecting America to America.

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Ken Burns tells 60 Minutes theme of race in his works was instilled in him as a child

Ken Burns speaks with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott PelleyFilmmaker Ken Burns says issues of race are a theme throughout almost all of his documentaries. Scott Pelley profiles Burns on the next edition of 60 Minutes, Sunday, November 8 at 7:30 p.m., ET and 7 p.m. PT on CBS. "I told people that 'Baseball' was the sequel to 'The Civil War,' and I meant it. "How we play games, and the nature of immigration, and the exclusion of women, and popular culture, and advertising, and heroes, and villains, and our imagination, and race, and race, and race are who we are." Pelley interviewed Burns in Walpole, New Hampshire, where he lives and works on numerous projects at a time.

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Ken Burns on the love and loss of 'Country Music'

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Ken Burns, the renowned documentarian known for bringing American history to vivid life, debuts his latest effort on Sunday, "Country Music." "We say about country music, 'Oh, it's about pickup trucks and good ole boys and hound dogs and six packs of beer.' "We tend to think of country music as one thing, but it's always been many things," says Burns. In Burns' view, the genre has also minted some of the finest songwriters in popular music, country or otherwise. That's country music."

Ken Burns on children's book, lashing out against Trump

Filmmaker Ken Burns has spent more than 35 years telling America's story in documentaries, but now he's releasing his first children's book called "Grover Cleveland, Again!: A Treasury of American Presidents." Burns joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss the inspiration behind the book as well as his latest political project, Historians on Donald Trump, which addresses why the presumptive GOP nominee's campaign is "so troubling from a historical perspective."

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Open: This is Face the Nation, April 10

With the New York primary race heating up, “Face the Nation” has the latest from the campaign trail with Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, GOP candidate and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, and others.

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Filmmaker Ken Burns on his latest documentary, "Jackie Robinson"

Ken Burns talks with "Face the Nation" about his latest documentary, which explores the life and legacy of baseball great and civil rights pioneer Jackie Robinson.

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Ken Burns: Circus-style American presidential elections not new

Renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says Americans today are quick to make instantaneous judgments in the political arena. Yet put into larger context, today's circus-style run-up to the presidential elections is no dirtier than years past.

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Ken Burns: 150 years after Civil War, America is not post-racial

Renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says the American narrative has been "bedeviled by a question of race" since the days of Thomas Jefferson. Burns says politics today is still caught on the subject of skin color.

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Ken Burns burst into tears during HD remake of "The Civil War"

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns says he burst into his tears while converting his 1990 PBS doc “The Civil War” into ultra high definition. Overwhelmed by new details, Burns says the new release has reminded him of the centrality of the war between states.

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Open: This is Face the Nation, September 14

Open: This is Face the Nation, September 14 The latest on the fighting in Iraq and Syria, the domestic violence controversy facing the NFL, and the latest Ken Burns documentary, with Secretary of State John Kerry, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York, Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, Ken Burns, and others.

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