Ken Burns - "The Roosevelts"

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  1. matthew5

    matthew5 Forum Resident

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    Yes. Burns can keep on churning out the documentaries and I will watch them all. It really is tv worth watching.
     
  2. PonceDeLeroy

    PonceDeLeroy Forum Resident

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt, A Poor Man's Friend
     
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  3. vince

    vince Stan Ricker's son-in-law

    My wonderful wife, who has NEVER enjoyed watching things about history, was ALSO glued to the tube, watching this with me! Now, THAT'S saying something!!!
     
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  4. PaulKTF

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    I swear Ken Burns could do a documentary on the history of tin foil and make it fascinating and compelling.
     
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  5. shokhead

    shokhead Head shok and you still don't what it is. HA!

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    Then again maybe not!:laugh:
     
  6. jhw59

    jhw59 Forum Resident

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    Still can't forgive him allowing WM to say there is no good jazz after 1960 but I do like this series.
     
  7. badfinger54

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    It pulled me in while watching a little of the previous episode while channel surfing.
     
  8. Hymie the Robot

    Hymie the Robot Forum Resident

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    I have enjoyed most of this but when George Will came on the second or third time I couldn't take it any more.
     
  9. lbangs

    lbangs Senior Member

    He gave us one of the show's best quotes.

    Concerning Franklin's condition post-polio, "Just as the irons were clapped on his legs, the steel entered his soul."

    Shalom, y'all!

    L. Bangs
     
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  10. tommy-thewho

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    I'm slowly watching it.... Another well done effort by Ken..

    Loved the Panama Canal storyline....
     
  11. Larry Mc

    Larry Mc Forum Dude

    a little George Will goes a long way.
     
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  12. PonceDeLeroy

    PonceDeLeroy Forum Resident

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    Call it a quibble but what about the music? In most of these Ken Burns documentaries you never hear country music. It's as if it never existed. In those days country music was more of a regional thing, the south, but hey, if Japanese yelled "F Roy Acuff" going into battle, then even THEY knew better than Wynton Marsalis that it was pretty important! The absence of country music in "The War" was in my opinion a bigger omission than dismissing free jazz in "Jazz." Can't understand the absence of country music in The Roosevelts.

    Don't get me wrong. I LOVED Ken Burns' documentaries The War, Jazz, and The Roosevelts! I guess I didn't like the dominance of Marsalis's musical opinions in earlier documentaries.
     
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  13. sixtiesstereo

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    I do remember hearing some bluegrass/country in the background at one point ("Keep On The Sunnyside"?)
    and last nights show did use some Benny Goodman and Glenn Miller.
     
  14. MikeP5877

    MikeP5877 V/VIII/MCMLXXVII

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  15. sixtiesstereo

    sixtiesstereo Senior Member

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    One thing that I found remarkable was in Friday's episode, as FDR was attempting to get aid to
    Britain/Churchill (1940?) passed to fight the Nazi's relentless war against England, they showed
    the naiveté of the isolationist/anti war US protesters by clearly showing the one carrying the large
    sign "Make PEACE With HITLER". I guess they were in for a shock, shortly after Pearl Harbor,
    when Hitler also declared war on the US, the same as Japan.
     
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  16. shokhead

    shokhead Head shok and you still don't what it is. HA!

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    Some things never change.
     
  17. Skip Reynolds

    Skip Reynolds Legend In His Own Mind

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    What's with his neck? He looks like he's talking to a child hiding under a table. Daring that hairpiece to fall off.

    No, I don't like him.
     
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  18. guy incognito

    guy incognito Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Besides the isolationists, who tended to reside on the political Right, there was also opposition to war on the socialist Left due to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. The latter were converted six months prior to Pearl Harbor, when Hitler attacked Russia.
     
  19. Raunchnroll

    Raunchnroll Senior Member

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    I enjoy George Wills commentary a lot. While not as personal or colloquial as the biographers, its more insightful on the constitutional and socio-political underpinnings of FDR's leadership. He's probably my favorite columnist/writer even though I don't always agree with his positions.
     
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  20. Captain Groovy

    Captain Groovy Senior Member

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    When I'm interested in what Ken Burns is focused on, I'm all over it. If not, I stay away completely - how many hours of baseball can I watch? None. I don't care about baseball.

    But I can watch 12 hours about the Civil War or World War II presented by him. Prohibition? Amazing. The Central Park Five movie he recently made was excellent.

    The Roosevelts? Well, I hated them as Presidents (not politically slanted - I dislike ALL Presidents post-Grover Cleveland really and most before him), but I might tune in to watch the destruction they caused in the even-handed and fair way Ken Burns portrays his subjects.

    I'm a Ken Burns fan. He is a national treasure. Generations from now will understand this if not today. I'm glad there are documentaries by him on Baseball, Jazz, etc. For those interested, I have no doubt the Baseball one is the most exhaustive documentary on the subject and I'm glad he did it. Just not for me.

    The Roosevelts? I'll give it a try since I'm interested in the time period in general.

    Jeff
     
  21. audiomixer

    audiomixer As Bald As The Beatles

    I'm in total agreement with you, Jeff.
     
  22. marcb

    marcb Senior Member

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    This is the first I've heard of it. It sounds interesting, but I don't think I can't bring myself to sit through 14 hours of the same old Ken Burns style...

    To be honest, he lost me half way through the Baseball series when I remembered that NY and Boston weren't the only cities to field baseball teams and great players.
     
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  23. guy incognito

    guy incognito Senior Member Thread Starter

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    Thank you.
     
  24. chacha

    chacha Forum Resident In Memoriam

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    I rarely agree with him and almost always enjoy him.
     
  25. boyjohn

    boyjohn Senior Member

    Also mispronounced "Moscow" quite a few times. (It doesn't rhyme with "cow")
     
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