The presentation opens with Norah Jones’ “American Anthem” clip (5 min) from The War. No clips utilized in this presentation.ĭrawing on some of Lincoln’s most stirring words as inspiration, this speech engages the paradox of war by following the powerful themes in two of Ken Burns’ best known works – The Civil War, his epic retelling of the most important event in American history and The War, his intensely moving story of WWII told through the experiences of so-called ordinary people from four geographically distributed American towns. Incorporating The Civil War, Baseball and Jazz, Burns engages and celebrates what we share in common. Ken Burns reminds the audience of the timeless lessons of history, and the enduring greatness and importance of the United States in the course of human events. He begins the talk with a 13-minute clip – the intro to The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. Here both “the immensity and the intimacy of time” merge, as we appreciate what the parks have added to our collective and individual spirit. The National Parks – A Treasure House of Nature’s Superlativesīurns discusses, in this unusually moving and personal lecture, the great gift of our national parks. Great oratory has all but disappeared from our public discourse, so it is indeed refreshing to have Burns remind us…words matter. “There is too much ‘pluribus’ these days,” Ken Burns says, “and not enough ‘unum.’ I’m in the business of ‘unum’.” He does this in his films, of course, but also in his equally acclaimed and riveting speeches before business and community audiences. He discusses his famous trilogy of celebrated documentary films and reveals the leadership models in the unexpectedly dramatic story of Lewis and Clark, delves into the complete and often contradictory lives of great American figures including Thomas Jefferson, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Mark Twain, and celebrates the achievements of the common soldier in The War.
A compelling storyteller, Burns speaks on these topics as well as the creative process.Īn eloquent keynote speaker, Ken Burns always address what we share in common, not what divides us. Burns was co-producer of Mark Twain, a four-hour portrait of one of America’s funniest and most popular writers. Anthony, which tells the story of the two women who almost single-handedly created and spearheaded the women’s rights movement in America Frank Lloyd Wright, the story of America’s foremost architectural genius and Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery, which chronicles the first official expedition into uncharted spaces in United States history. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed.īurns has also focused his lens a number of other topics, including: The War, an intimate look at the years 1941-1945 Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. His most recent documentary, Prohibition, tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. A perennial figure on PBS, Burns is the creator, director and producer of numerous award-winning documentaries, including Jazz, Civil War, Baseball, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea and The Tenth Inning.
One of the most recognizable and popular documentary filmmakers of our time, Ken Burns chronicles those aspects of U.S.
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