Released on: 1999
Rating: 4.60
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The Civil War DVD Review
According to author and historian Shelby Foote, any understanding of America has to be based in the Civil War, nearly the entirety of “the American character” was defined by it. For his part, Ken Burns agreed. When he began the nine part series, he had already made six films on American history – topics as diverse as the Statue of Liberty and Huey P. Long, the Shakers, and the Brooklyn Bridge. In all, he felt “the dark cloud” of America’s greatest conflict hanging over them. Continued after the jump.When the war ended, Walt Whitman, a nurse in a Union hospital, summed it up. “Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession war; and it is best they should not.”“The real war,” he wrote, “will never get in the books.”In 1990, both Ken Burns and PBS rose to that challenge.»
- Jonathan Callan
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Tribeca Review | A Jerk Makes Amends In "Despicable Dick and Righteous Richard"
Richard Kuchera, the supremely flawed subject of Joshua Neale's documentary "Despicable Dick and Righteous Richard," has a personality ready-made for the movies. A recovering alcoholic attempting to make up with everyone affected by his behavior, the North Dakota resident is a tragically slapstick figure, doomed to continually screw up no matter how sincerely he tries to correct his life. After half a century of shameless alcoholic binges, audacious con jobs »
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