Ken Burns Films

  • Premiered: Nov 1981
  • Episodes: 142
  • Followers: 4
  • Running
  • PBS
  • Unknown
  • Documentary

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Season 2022
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Benjamin Franklin: Episode 1 - Join or Die (1706-1774)
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Air date
Apr 04, 2022
Leaving behind his Boston childhood, Benjamin Franklin reinvents himself in Philadelphia where he builds a printing empire and a new life with his wife, Deborah. Turning to science, .. show full overview
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Benjamin Franklin Episode 2 - An American (1775-1790)
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Air date
Apr 05, 2022
Benjamin Franklin leaves London and returns to wartime Philadelphia where he joins Congress and helps Thomas Jefferson craft the Declaration of Independence. In Paris, he wins French .. show full overview
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The U.S. and the Holocaust: Episode 1 - The Golden Door (Beginnings - 1938)
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Air date
Sep 18, 2022
Congress reverses open borders; Hitler and the Nazis begin their persecution of German Jews, causing many to seek refuge; President Franklin D. Roosevelt is concerned but unable to coordinate a response to the crisis.
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The U.S. and the Holocaust: Episode 2 - Yearning to Breathe Free (1938 - 1942)
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Air date
Sep 19, 2022
As World War II begins, Americans unite in their disapproval of Nazi brutality and work to help refugees escape; Germany invades the Soviet Union and secretly begins the mass murder of European Jews.
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The U.S. and the Holocaust: Episode 3 - The Homeless, The Tempest-Tossed (1942 - )
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Sep 20, 2022
A group of government officials supports rescue operations; the public sees for the first time the scale of the Holocaust as Allies liberate German camps.

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