Showing posts with label documentaries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label documentaries. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 10, 2025

On the merits of using re-enactments in documentary films

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Budgets are the bane of documentary filmmakers, as well as their biggest constraint I’ve watched a few films by Elizabeth Deane, who has mad...
Wednesday, December 9, 2020

In defense of the documentary as an art form

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When I was in high school, I got into a documentary for the first time in my life. The first documentary that I got into was  Ken Burns’ “...
Wednesday, October 31, 2018

A review of Ken Burns’ “Baseball” (PBS)

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“♪ Katie Casey was baseball mad, Had the fever and had it bad. Just to root for the home town crew, Ev'ry sou Katie blew. ♪ ♪ On...
Tuesday, September 4, 2018

A review of “Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire” (History Channel)

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Note: This is a different series from  “Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire” (which is made by the BBC). There aren't too m...
Friday, June 15, 2018

A review of David Starkey's “Monarchy” (U. K.)

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"God save our gracious King! Long live our noble King! God save the King ! Send him victorious, Happy and glorious, Long to rei...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

A review of Alistair Cooke's “America: A Personal History of the United States”

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" ... these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, FREE AND INDEPENDENT STATES ; that they are absolved from all allegiance ...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

A review of Ken Burns’ “Jazz” (PBS series)

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"Jazz is the assassination, the murdering, the slaying of syncopation. I would even go so far as to confess that we are musical anarc...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

A review of Andrew Marr’s “Modern Britain” series (1901-2007)

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"In this Act the expression 'Dominion'  means any of the following Dominions, that is to say, the Dominion of Canada, the Commo...
Wednesday, November 11, 2015

A review of “The Great War” (1964 BBC series)

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"In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely...
Monday, November 9, 2015

A review of CNN's “The Cold War”

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"He who ignores the lessons of history is doomed to repeat it." - George Santayana Soviets' first atomic bomb test, 19...
Friday, May 1, 2015

A review of Simon Schama’s “A History of Britain”

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"That the two Kingdoms of  England and Scotland  shall upon the First day of May which shall be in the year One thousand seven hundre...
Thursday, April 9, 2015

A review of Ken Burns’ “The Civil War” (PBS series)

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"Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continu...
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Monday, November 17, 2014

A review of Kenneth Clark's “Civilisation”

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"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts: the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of th...
Friday, June 6, 2014

A review of “The World at War” (World War Two series)

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"This morning the British Ambassador in Berlin Nevile Henderson handed the German Government a final note stating that unless we hear...
Saturday, July 13, 2013

My favorite history documentaries

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Disclosure: I am an Amazon affiliate marketer, and can sometimes make money when you buy the product using the link(s) below. Ancient h...
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Monday, July 1, 2013

A review of "Canada: A People's History"

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"It shall be lawful for the Queen, by and with the Advice of Her Majesty’s Most Honourable Privy Council, to declare by Proclamation ...