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What is the best documentary, and why is it Ken Burns' Baseball
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Assuming Ken Burns is in first place, the runner up has to be The Battered Bastards of Baseball.
It's about how Kurt Russell's dad owned an independent baseball club in the 70s and Kurt himself played on the team. It's tremendously entertaining, even if you're not much for baseball in the first place.
That's assuming we're only discussing documentaries about baseball, of course.
It's about how Kurt Russell's dad owned an independent baseball club in the 70s and Kurt himself played on the team. It's tremendously entertaining, even if you're not much for baseball in the first place.
That's assuming we're only discussing documentaries about baseball, of course.
No it didn't last dance is a Jordan wank fest that is totally biased and pro jordan
Made in America is still the perfect documentary in my mind. Such an amazing exploration of race in America.
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But yeah OJ Made In America was better.
But yeah OJ Made In America was better.
Everything Ken Burns is outstanding it's not fair to include him
Carrier on PBS, about life on the USS Nimitz is the most accurate depiction of Naval life that I have ever seen.
When We Were Kings. Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman. Perfection set to film.
Carrier on PBS, about life on the USS Nimitz is the most accurate depiction of Naval life that I have ever seen.
When We Were Kings. Muhammad Ali versus George Foreman. Perfection set to film.
Last Dance is enjoyable but let's not pretend it wasn't an MJ puff piece as it was all bought off on by him.
Some of my favourites are about troubled movie productions:
Burden of Dreams (Fitzcarraldo)
Hearts of Darkness (Apocalypse Now)
Jodorowsky's Dune
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
It's hard to go wrong with any made/narrated by Werner Herzog or David Attenborough too.
Burden of Dreams (Fitzcarraldo)
Hearts of Darkness (Apocalypse Now)
Jodorowsky's Dune
Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau
It's hard to go wrong with any made/narrated by Werner Herzog or David Attenborough too.
For someone whose formative sports-watching years coincided with those of Jordan's reign, Last Dance has been nothing but wonderful for me. I was at an age where all I did was watch the basketball and love it, but I was too young to know what was going on behind the scenes. For that alone, this documentary has been golden.
Honest question: What's your basketball team?
I don't think he's saying it wasn't entertaining. It's a paid propaganda piece, not a documentary in the Ken Burns sense.
I watched baseball the first week of this year. Phenomenal documentary, and kinda unreal baseball was canceled indefinitely lol
That arson led to the Mariners is just so damn fitting.
Suffering through another dumpster fire of a season almost every year is my ritual.
There is Ken Burns and Lynn Novak...and then there is everyone else.
"Prohibition" is one of my favorites. It's an even wilder story than you can imagine.
"Prohibition" is one of my favorites. It's an even wilder story than you can imagine.
Ken Burns Civil War is my personal favorite. But anything he does is amazing and I am using his docs to teach my wife history lessons and she is loving them.
I'm a lakers fan. Not my intention to rain on anyone's nostalgia parade, I have been watching plenty of old Lakers stuff during stay at home lol
FWIW I also really enjoyed the last dance, but the lack of objectivity or opposing voice is hard for me to not notice. Being a fluff piece isn't necessarily bad, especially for Jordan, where IMO it fit the brand well. It was about the persona not the person.
It also makes me worried about the eventual Kobe doc too, since it will copy Jordan in every way possible lol. It will go easy on him for the negative stuff
According to Wikipedia, Burns looks to have some amazing topics for his next documentaries:
- Ernest Hemingway (2021, with Lynn Novick)[67]
- Ali (2021, with Sarah Burns and David McMahon)[68]
- The Holocaust & the United States (working title) (2021, with Lynn Novick)[69]
- Benjamin Franklin (2022)[70]
- Stand-up Comedy (TBA)[71]
- LBJ & the Great Society (2027) [72]
- The American Buffalo (TBA) [73]
- Leonardo da Vinci (TBA) [73]
- The American Revolution (2025) [73]
- The History of Reconstruction (TBA) [73]
- Winston Churchill (TBA) [73]
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I'm a big fan of Century of the Self - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_of_the_Self) by Adam Curtis
Baseball was such an awesome documentary series, but the 10th inning update Ken Burns made a few years ago was pretty disappointing. It was all Red Sox, Red Sox, Red Sox, completely ignoring that the White Sox ended a crazy long drought of their own just a year later.
OOoooooh
ALso apparently he uses Peter Coyote in many of his documentaries as his narrator:
The Golden Voice Behind All Those Ken Burns Documentaries
If you’ve ever been entranced by the narration of a Ken Burns doc, you have Peter Coyote to thank.
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No, but it does have this moving rendition of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame." Just thinking of it makes me tear up.
Hey I also want to bring up Werner Herzog - Grizzly Man certainly, but Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a trip (the narcotic painkillers I was on probably helped).
If we limit it just to sports, When We Were Kings, Hoop Dreams, and Senna are probably the best I've seen (haven't actually seen Burns' Baseball, just his Civil War series).
