"Ken Burns is a living national treasure" SECONDED !!! Just imagine if 'history' was taught in North American schools a la Ken Burns !
@cynthianolder3557 Жыл бұрын
Love his docs! This one should be one of the more educational ones for us Americans
@clumsydad7158 Жыл бұрын
made history pretty cool and 'real', that's a miracle in itself
@dafrasier1 Жыл бұрын
He left out the part about Germany being CATHOLIC, or Italy being Catholics. Ken ; Overpopulation is NOT a solution.
@steveaitch729 Жыл бұрын
a documentary about him would be interesting. maybe someone at PBS could be persuaded to consider financing the project.
@susannjarvis5587 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is a wonderful storyteller. We need to hear all these stories. We need to own our mistakes as well as our triumphs. This documentary covers the historical record of the US response to the Holocaust. And that response was greatly underpinned and driven by the emotions, beliefs, and fears over immigration that still resonate today.
@greatunborn Жыл бұрын
I am a Filipino. While the Philippines was still a colony of the U.S., in 1933, the Filipino president, Manuel L. Quezon "welcomed over 1,200 Jews from Germany and Austria into an unlikely haven in the Pacific archipelago. With his Open Doors policy, even as most nations closed their doors to Jewish refugees, these Jews - who came to be known as 'Manilaners' - escaped Hitler’s growing menace and reached the Philippine capital. Were it not for interference by the United States government, however, there could have been thousands more rescued Jews... while [Quezon] had wanted to bring tens of thousands of Jews to the Philippines and permanently settle them on the island of Mindanao, his efforts were stymied by the US government, who limited him to accept 1,000 Jews a year." (Times of Israel) I am very proud of what my president did -- and wanted to do.
@hunterrgntr Жыл бұрын
What I gathered from the brief discussion was to get out there and simply tell the facts in every story. No matter how distasteful and uncomfortable it may be just tell the event(s) as they actually occurred.
@dafrasier1 Жыл бұрын
Burns should do a Story on International Sex Offender. yes the Vatican, Holy See, Catholics. tell the horrendous story of Millions of Catholic Children Sexually abused by Clergy, by Catholics. the Largest Child Sex Abuse Ring in Human history, Would Colbert then say that Catholics are good?
@bonniejosavland3227 Жыл бұрын
@@hunterrgntr well the Republicans of today & more recent (50 years) are especially against telling the real history of our minorities including the slaughter & pillage of our indigenous peoples & African Americans ( the real stories of slavery, acquiring, living, selling & their lives)!😳🥹🤬 Vote blue ppl bc now they are trying (& partially succeeding to control women & reverse their rights to their own bodies with the overturn of Roe
@giyavictoria3747 Жыл бұрын
@@greatunborn thank you for sharing this. ❤
@cynhanrahan4012 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns was responsible for me divesting myself from my familial mythology of the Civil War and my southern ancestors. It really helped to know the truth, and apply it to real people's stories, and accept that my family was wrong, even the teenagers who were willingly conscripted. I need to see this Holocaust story.
@unknowncitizen8192 Жыл бұрын
I have seen it twice. I just finished watching his documentary, about the US role in the holocaust; on my local PBS channel, for the second time this week. It is worth watching! 💯%
@kathyrama4570 Жыл бұрын
Did you see his documentary on Jackie Robinson? What an incredible human being he was.
@MissyGail4eva Жыл бұрын
Absolutely...and his thoughtfully articulated take on musical storytelling in America with "Country Music" was breathtakingly comprehensive and resonant, a remarkable curation of our truly unique heritage.
@SuzanneM_54 Жыл бұрын
@@unknowncitizen8192 There are 2 more parts, 6 hours in total.
@miapdx503 Жыл бұрын
This is why teaching people the truth is so crucial. There are so many Americans who's whole existence, as they know it, is based on lies. And they cling to those lies, they repeat those lies. They do harm based on those lies.
@gusgus8134 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is a history HERO! His docs should be shown in all schools.
@waldolydecker8118 Жыл бұрын
MAGA will remove Ken Burns from schools because he tells the uncomfortable historical truth. MAGA don't subscribe to truth.
@thunderousapplause Жыл бұрын
Cant. Royalties.
@gatorgirl5701 Жыл бұрын
I agree because his docs are factual, therefore can be fact checked.
@mforcel Жыл бұрын
@@thunderousapplause Can and is. Watched a series of his as part of class curriculum.
@dianekosan994 Жыл бұрын
Absolutely!!
@leighcarlson87 Жыл бұрын
“Tell the stories”. Amen! We must teach our children everything - the good, the bad and the ugly.
@26beegee Жыл бұрын
I’ve watched every doc Burns has ever made. They have shaped my historical view.
@leemdynamo Жыл бұрын
I think those films helped you shape your own views.
@Tessmage_Tessera Жыл бұрын
@@leemdynamo I think that's what the OP said. "They have shaped MY historical view." Are you confused?
@hunterrgntr Жыл бұрын
@@Tessmage_Tessera Kudos to you, kudos!
@Mozart1220 Жыл бұрын
@@leemdynamo That's what the OP said. Do you have an issue with Burns?
@googleisevil8958 Жыл бұрын
Must be one corrupted view then.
@jamesclark6142 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is an American treasure!
@yanapostolides601 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is a liar. You believe lies.
@BluthBoy1 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns and the people who work with him tell amazing, truthful and harrowing stories that shine a light on what was, what is and what could still be. We are more informed and better equipped for the power they provide us in knowing the frailties and majesty of the human experience. Thank you for telling and sharing these stories, as hard as they might be for the world to digest.
@v66catta84 Жыл бұрын
This interview needed to go much longer. Excellent work by Ken Burns!
@greenwitch9836 Жыл бұрын
The wonderful Ken Burns - I wish you had continued talking with him and finished that bottle. I love hearing him talk about his findings and Stephen asking some really great questions or giving great commentary of his own.
@davidchrist1037 Жыл бұрын
We failed? We ended the war with the Russia efforts how does that qualify as A fail. Afghanistan was a fail, Korea was A stalemate, Iraq was a mistake, Vietnam was a total fail. Liberating the Death camps was a Nazi fail and their Downfall in any honor or national image Of a superior people. All because one Man had a grudge and paranoia.
@michaelkahane2072 Жыл бұрын
The solution to your wish: Watch the documentary. I am the son of Holocaust Survivors and in watching the first episode I discovered history I was unaware of. It’s tough stuff but well worth it.
@barcelonachair6487 Жыл бұрын
As a Canadian I learned this part of US history. I learned the good and bad of all world history even Canadian history. We delved deep in grades 11- 13 and then much deeper in University.
@oldpossum57 Жыл бұрын
The St. Louis migrants, he internment and the dispossession of Canadians of Japanese descent, the Residential Schools, the Big Scoop…There is lots of evidence of unconscionable wrong doing in Canada.
@barcelonachair6487 Жыл бұрын
@@oldpossum57 That is why I said "even Canadian history." We as students did not think for one moment we were free from atrocities in our own Country/world, I remember some of our lessons were posed as questions to make us understand our roles in events and proposing what we should have done differently. One of my history teachers (who was also the football coach) had travelled the world with his family every summer and used his photo slides to show us the world in our lessons. Like the pyramids, Great Wall, Isreal. We had taken field trips to Native reservations to understand the history from local tribe members. For World religion class we attended a service or worship of every world religion after we studied it. It saddens me how much education is being taken away from students now in the name of hate, power and ignorance.
@rsmith02 Жыл бұрын
So did I in the US, as well as the internment camps which marred both our countries in WWII.
@geminigirltwo Жыл бұрын
I agree. Deny theirs and our history does not mean it did not exist. 🇨🇦
@amyelizabeth529 Жыл бұрын
@@barcelonachair6487 Sounds like you had a wonderful history teacher who was successful in instructing his students on Allied actions/inactions, their biased ideologies, and the physical/emotional toll on the affected people. Well said.. 👏
@LaurenWaringDouglas Жыл бұрын
Ok, I know y'all have an extended version of this interview. You have to; this was too good. You could hear a pin drop in that audience. They were hanging on to his every word. Please post it as soon as you can!
@N_Ides Жыл бұрын
I love history and the way Ken Burns pays respect to it. The only way we improve is to learn from what has happened beforehand.
@alwaysuseless Жыл бұрын
Such a short conversation. But this is The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, not Fresh Air with Terri Gross. And both have their reasons for being. So, thanks for this. At least, now more people will look for the documentary, "The U.S. and the Holocaust," available on PBS.
@barbarabaldwin7120 Жыл бұрын
too much time WASTED in the monologue!---This is Ken Burns,on the Holocaust!!!!
@Ti5qu4ntum Жыл бұрын
George Carlin was so right... "When you're born you get a free ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America you get a front row seat." 🙌🏼 Ken Burns is a National Treasure and must be protected at all costs.
@yanapostolides601 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns just said on CNN today March 7th 2023 "Jefferson saw no contradiction in slavery" This is a lie, of course, which leads me to believe he is a brainwashed political hack and liar that is EFFECTIVLY HELPING A RACE WAR AND DIVISION IN THIS COUNTRY.
@mcm8737 Жыл бұрын
Anything KEN BURNS makes I am all in!!! There is no better documentary maker period, I learn so much and he makes things I wouldn't think would be of interest to me, interesting.👍🍀
@johnweddel687 Жыл бұрын
Thank goodness for Ken Burns. He is able to tell us the "uncomfortable truth". I wish more people would watch this series (as hard as it is to watch at times) and learn the unvarnished history. Maaybe, just maybe "never again" would register with more people.
@toluabisola Жыл бұрын
It's so rare to see an American historian who doesn't shy away from uncomfortable truths and doesn't engage in make believe. This should be standard teaching in every US classroom, might help get rid of the nauseating exceptionalism that seems to plaque the country.
@jimpalmer792 Жыл бұрын
"It's so rare to see an American historian who doesn't shy away from uncomfortable truths and doesn't engage in make believe." Yep. Donald Trump is the 'bizarro' Ken Burns.
@rsmith02 Жыл бұрын
It's not actually rare if you read history books. Burns does a nice job synthesizing and adapting already well established history for TV.
@l337pwnage Жыл бұрын
all these America haters that refuse to leave, lol. Just like all the ones that were gonna leave after Trump got elected, but then they just stayed.
@WoWhistorian Жыл бұрын
@@l337pwnage Understanding and accepting your nation's mistakes and flaws is not "hating America." It's learning how to make it even better in the future.
@l337pwnage Жыл бұрын
@@WoWhistorian Well, we will Make America Great Again, but it will take time. Thank you for the encouragement.
@JonBlondell Жыл бұрын
You won't see anything about this on Any other talk show. Kudos to Stephen and staff.
@loonylaura85 Жыл бұрын
Yes. From what I've seen (which is just clips on here because I'm in the UK), none of the other talk shows in America have properly serious people on like Stephen does.
@nancywelsh2837 Жыл бұрын
@@loonylaura85 Seth Meyers does. Hoping Ken Burns is booked
@lordbuddybear Жыл бұрын
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has plenty of similiar discussions, and they post longer interviews sometimes, too. This wasn't even getting 8 minutes, because it had to be aside another, longer interview with an actress
@daniellesniewski8396 Жыл бұрын
"There is only one race, the human race." Well said!
@TheZig726 Жыл бұрын
I watched the first episode and all I can think about was how history is repeating itself here in America right now.
@ClayLoomis1958 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, but we removed our Hitler from office. These Q-Anon and hard right conservative people make a lot of noise, but they lose numbers all the time. The "left-wing cannibals and pedophile rings" nonsense is making even traditional conservatives shake their heads in wonder.
@lillianrogers75 Жыл бұрын
That’s the same thought I had while watching the first episode. It’s a terrifying prospect.
@marvinmartin4692 Жыл бұрын
It’s just heartbreaking to see all the brave men who served in ww2 being so dishonored by trump and his followers!
@Maddiehere89 Жыл бұрын
I am afraid of the s as me thing happening here in US today. These MAGA ppl are not going to stop until it happens here. Trump is Hitler reincarnated!
@prof.scheere6933 Жыл бұрын
Its disgusting. And they talk about religion and the constitution and such. Its so gross
@amppma7302 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is a national treasure. his documentaries should be used to teach history in our schools.
@yanapostolides601 Жыл бұрын
Nope he is a liar and a political hack.
@amppma7302 Жыл бұрын
@@yanapostolides601 sounds like his work has made you feel guilty. instead of examining your legacy honestly, you are just falling back on the time honored tropes of denigration and denial. well done, keeping willful ignorance alive.
@yanapostolides601 Жыл бұрын
@@amppma7302 Ken Burns said today on CNN "Jefferson saw no contradiction is slavery" This is an outright lie. I have the clip, and I've read Jefferson. Why would I feel guilty about telling the truth. You've typed a whole bunch of words but have no reason to them. What tropes? What denigration or denial? What "Willful ignorance" You've said nothing! You don't know who you are talking to. You assume you have the truth and everyone else is wrong.
@yanapostolides601 Жыл бұрын
@@amppma7302 I will say the same words to you.... well done, keeping willful ignorance alive.
@amppma7302 Жыл бұрын
@@yanapostolides601 just an educated guess here, but it sounds like A: you don't actually read what you write.. or B: English isn't your first language, hence the grammar/usage errors that make your comments difficult to understand. BTW, you are clearly in the minority here. as I said previously, this sounds personal.
@Lonewolfmike Жыл бұрын
Mr. Burns is holding a mirror up to our faces right now and we have to listen and make sure this NEVER EVER HAPPENS AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@johndoey9918 Жыл бұрын
@Lonewolf 1970 Re your "never happens again" comment: So true. It seems impossible to normal people, yet it is right before our eyes again today. If our voting citizenry does not pay enough attention to see that the face of facism now rising in this country, encouraged by the sociopathic former president and his enablers, is a parallel to the lead-up to WW2 which must be stopped at the ballot box and in the schools, it won't be because Ken Burns didn't sound the alarm while there was still time to save the country and rule of law.
@captainofmysoul108 Жыл бұрын
You're right, that is why we need to make sure we stand up to the genocide that is currently happening to the Uyghur Muslim people in China. History is repeating itself right now!
@dellishart9535 Жыл бұрын
What an amazing man, keep telling history to the masses 👍🏼👍🏼
@kormanroger Жыл бұрын
The truth hurts but it must be told
@DETROIT1948 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns, The Truth and Nothing But The Truth.
@dr.buzzvonjellar8862 Жыл бұрын
Thanks again Ken Burns.
@0920121908250727 Жыл бұрын
This will not go down well with our country’s racists and those trying to ban books and teaching of historical facts in our schools. Thank you Mr Burns for doing this work. We need to know the truth.
@charlesdavis1080 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in a small town in CT in the 1960's. I remember an old couple who lived alone at the end of a street. My relatives called them " DPs". The way said that phrase was like they were using the "N" word. I later learned that DP stood for Displaced Person. They were refugees from WWII, maybe even Holocaust survivors.
@nancywelsh2837 Жыл бұрын
My social science prof had a multi-digit number tattooed a few inches below his elbow. That arm was paralyzed. Wish he told his story.
@marvinmartin4692 Жыл бұрын
On the day of my father’s funeral, I found out he served in Europe during ww2, and that he had been part of the liberation of 2 camps. I was told he came back a different man. I had no idea why he didn’t want me to join the army out of high school. Now I know!
@prof.scheere6933 Жыл бұрын
He should have told u himself. Not telling someone something doesnt help them. Happened to me my whole life. You need to tell people why to avoid things and why those things effected you so otherwise people will go figure it out for themselves
@libbyworkman3459 Жыл бұрын
@ Marvin Martin. Your father probably couldn’t talk about it without breaking down and crying. Men don’t like to cry, especially in front of their children. I was seven years old when America entered that war. And I was still in grammar school when American troops liberated the death camps. The photos I saw in the newspaper were horrifying to this day. I stopped praying for many years because I thought, these were God’s chosen people, I know they prayed for God to save them. Why should I think God would answer my prayers if he didn’t answer his chosen people’s prayers?
@jorgecaraballo8499 Жыл бұрын
My dad served in the army in the 1960s. He didn't want me to join.
@dsantamaria713 Жыл бұрын
Burns can relay History with honesty, and dignity, even when it's so difficult to hear and see... His commitment to every detail is outstanding, and will never insult the truth with a fabricated lie, or cover-up... He invites us to learn, and accept the truth, no matter how difficult, and I have been appreciating his work and the Man he is for a very long time now.. Thank you, and ALL those involved in making these Historical brilliant documentaries... They are truly a Gift to us all! ♥️♥️♥️
@richardsedding8444 Жыл бұрын
So glad the Late Show is back, thank you Stephen Colbert and team for posting these videos each day!
@dafrasier1 Жыл бұрын
Colbert's support of Catholic Child Sex Abuse is NOT a good thing. Cover UP.
@francespetryshyn439 Жыл бұрын
Oh I love this man!! So much!!
@blueberrybop Жыл бұрын
As a European it has always irked me how the US has promoted themselves as the heroes of WWII, as if the rest of Europe hadn't been fighting their asses off before the US stepped in to help out... It's refreshing to hear that someone has taken a deeper look into the truth about the US involvement. I hope I can find this documentary somewhere, because I'd love to watch it!
@cal2780 Жыл бұрын
You can purchase it from PBS, public broadcasting station. "Signals" is their catalog. Check it out. Ken's other documentaries are available there
@Synathidy Жыл бұрын
There are two things that the USA, my nation, has in spades: 1. Stupidity 2. Narcissism We make it very clear to the rest of the world that we are NUMBER ONE in these areas. 'Merica.
@julieehrlich9925 Жыл бұрын
I protested the Vietnam War in the sixties. When I watched Ken Burns documentary, I cried every night.
@kellig.6819 Жыл бұрын
I adore all Ken Burns documentary! Mr Burns is a genius director. ❤ Looking forward to this new one. ty Mr Burns
@AkDragoon Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is such a good documentarian that he made Baseball interesting to me...
@chezmoi42 Жыл бұрын
That takes a special talent. I remember that Roger Angell's New Yorker baseball articles drew me in, me who couldn't sit through a game. (Sadly, I see we have lost him this year, at the grand age of 101.)
@jimsykes6843 Жыл бұрын
The struggle is real. I watched an interview with him on KZbin on some mainstream TV show, and half the KZbin commentators were openly fascist, while the others were accusing him of discounting the "fact" that "Americans were heroes in WWII" and "saved the world from Nazism". It's terrifying people are so openly racist and misinformed. I applaud Ken Burns for doing this important work.
@katl6426 Жыл бұрын
It's so frustrating how Americans continue to believe they single-handedly won WW 2. If Japan hadn't attacked them they'd have continued to let their supposed allies fight on their own, just as they had for several years against Hitler.
@Trund27 Жыл бұрын
One of my celebrity crushes. Always love his work.
@paulaswanson13 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Stephen for interviewing this amazing man. I’m a long time fan of his documentaries.
@VeNoMsEpItApH Жыл бұрын
Thanks Ken for shining light on this unspoken history.
@phyllisstrider2998 Жыл бұрын
You should do a whole show with Ken Birns!! The man is a history book. He tells a great story.
@WildwoodClaire1 Жыл бұрын
"The U.S. and the Holocaust" is Burns' finest documentary.
@AmberAmber Жыл бұрын
Agreed. Just watched it ‐ brilliant & bittersweet. *edit‐clarity* his talents made something abominable & horrific much more well‐known, & thats the bittersweet bit... The lies revealed by Mr. Burns' talents & adherence to the most unpleasant yet necessary facts.
@tlgoody Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns has done many great documentaries but this one may be one of the most important. There are important lessons in this one. It can happen here. It already has more than once and history is rhyming now.
@johnfarr2738 Жыл бұрын
Absolute love Ken Burns! He’s never been afraid to always tell the truth
@johnfarr2738 Жыл бұрын
Not just “Our Side”
@vc27r Жыл бұрын
Wow, Ken looks great! Hopefully he has many more years and docs in his future!
@Rockingruvin Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is a national treasure.
@SpiffEatWorld Жыл бұрын
Slight correction: Ken Burns is an international treasure.
@annm4833 Жыл бұрын
I finished watching this series last night on PBS and as usual I learned things I'd never heard before. I've learned from every one of his documentaries and I'd love to hear much more of his personal take on these. They're fascinating and Ken Burns is like a walking history book.
@katford7286 Жыл бұрын
I always felt that my education in American and world history was pretty solid. But after watching this documentary, I realized that what I had learned about America's role in the Jewish plight didn't even scratch the surface. It's so important that our history is taught accurately and comprehensively in our schools so as to learn these hard lessons and avoid them in the future.
@kiwibob223 Жыл бұрын
No no , can't make children uncomfortable. /S
@tinaperez7393 Жыл бұрын
There's so much history that isn't taught. That and civics. I've read a lot about the industrial age and the labor movement and white collar crime. And the history of the labor movement and how the laws came to be that offer labor protections and safe food, beverage, medicines, cosmetics, personal products, and sanitation, etc. The history of agricultural policy, etc. It's so obvious when people talk about anything related to these topics these days how little of the history of these topics they know. Otherwise their views would be very different and informed, and not easily manipulated.
@tinaperez7393 Жыл бұрын
I hope Ken does a comprehensive documentary on the native American history and the U.S. next. Unless he's already done that (I'm not aware of ALL his docs although I've seen many - I better check Wikipedia!).
@ansuajo Жыл бұрын
You do know that the U.S. school education is a global joke and a paragon of a white supremacist propaganda system?
@suvivares Жыл бұрын
I do not understand why he has not received an Academy Award yet!!!! A shame!!
@annedwyer797 Жыл бұрын
I kind of feel as though Ken Burns is in his own category of documentarians! Also, since PBS is THE only outlet for his documentaries; that makes them not qualified for nomination: (Wikipedia) "The Best Documentary Feature award requires either week-long releases in both Los Angeles County and New York City[a] during the previous calendar year, or a qualifying award at a competitive film festival from the Documentary Feature Qualifying Festival list (regardless of any public exhibition or distribution), or submission in the International Feature Film category as its country's official selection. The qualifying theatrical runs must meet the same requirements as those for non-documentary films regarding numbers and times of screenings. Additionally, a film must have been reviewed by a critic from The New York Times, Time Out New York, the Los Angeles Times, or LA Weekly."
@williameisenberg1999 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for people like Ken Burns … Telling the Truth about America’s dark past .
@jstone247 Жыл бұрын
I'm not American but I have always enjoyed Ken Burns historical documentaries. In 1980/1990s I think he produced a series on Native America history called, 500 Nations. Very well researched and presented. Also, does that guy ever age?
@eldorados_lost_searcher Жыл бұрын
He does. I noticed that he looks a little less fresh-faced in this, compared to his previous appearances.
@chezmoi42 Жыл бұрын
@@eldorados_lost_searcher Coming up on seventy, it's allowed. I think it's the hair style that gives that impression of youth - those cute bangs.
@eldorados_lost_searcher Жыл бұрын
@@chezmoi42 I didn't mean it in a negative way, just an observation.
@chezmoi42 Жыл бұрын
@@eldorados_lost_searcher I know, Garret, same here. I'm a fresh-faced lady who just turned 80. Sort of feels like the new 70.
@le2800 Жыл бұрын
@@chezmoi42 Cute!!! My mom's the same! A fresh faced woman closing in on 80s looking like late 60s!!!
@tr7b410 Жыл бұрын
His work imparts much wisdom to our data base of truth.As Plato said;We must never honor men,only TRUTH.
@ericminch Жыл бұрын
Which is undoubtedly why TFG, in his wisdom and his unerring reverence for Plato, has named his social media platform TRVTH SOZIAL.
@velikovskysghost Жыл бұрын
I've been watching the "The U.S, and the Holocaust," which is excellent and one that I highly recommend. To deny it is ludicrous to be sure and Ken Burns brings light to what we didn't know about our great nation.
@BeerStein33 Жыл бұрын
Most Trusted Man in America. ⏳📚🤔💭📈
@nightengale7163 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is a phenomenal talent. The message in this documentary needs to be heard by every American. There needs to be more availability of the documentary. The availability on PBS is too limited.
@robvangessel3766 Жыл бұрын
We're supposed to learn from history in order to evolve - as an ethical people, as civilization. Let's start learning; in spite of the corrosive effect of media disinformation.
@clumsydad7158 Жыл бұрын
problem is human life is short, and each new gen has to bother to learn
@robvangessel3766 Жыл бұрын
@@clumsydad7158 Ideally, that's what the history pages are for - if people just looked at them more
@KohalaLover Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns makes well thought out documentaries. Class act.
@robinconner9450 Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns documentaries should come a workbook and be taught in EVERY history class.
@susankovacs8678 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Ken Burns!
@erinnstreeter Жыл бұрын
While this interview wasn't nearly long enough, I'm very glad the show brought Mr. Burns on to share the news about this new film.
@Greenfuego Жыл бұрын
I watched the first episode earlier today. Damn! The things they don’t teach in school.
@lindakluth5611 Жыл бұрын
I learned it in school. We watched it black and white films in the seventies. Plus history books.
@vrt6545 Жыл бұрын
Hey Linda: you and I might be from about the same vintage -- the ritual in my high school (in Tex-izz, no less) was to run Alain Resnais's "Night and Fog" ([for jrs. and srs., or just the srs? [it's been awhile]). Nobody said much for the first half-hour afterwards
@ansuajo Жыл бұрын
American schooling is a white supremacists propaganda....hello?!
@bakersdirtydozen Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns needs to make an in-depth slavery documentary.
@peggypolo3643 Жыл бұрын
A national treasure!
@kittywalker2944 Жыл бұрын
This program is Vitally important to watch. I have learned so much in the first episode alone. (Didn’t know I’d been living in ignorance.) It is helpful to see where we have been and where we are headed. It’s also interesting to see the parallels between 45 and Hitler. If nothing else, this show is a warning. But it is much more.
@cheftekniqakabuletteborn8127 Жыл бұрын
ken burns is an amazing historian
@tommyt1971 Жыл бұрын
Watched part 1, just got thru about half of part 2 and it gets more fascinating each minute. This guy simply can NOT make a weak documentary. I might even put the Handmaid’s Tale and House/Dragon on hold to finish this thing - it’s monumental.
@alexaales7937 Жыл бұрын
I am always happy to see Ken Burns even tho he always has something depressing to say. I really want to watch ALL his documentaries before i die (maybe not the baseball one, as a i am German and don't care for it) but over here they are hard to come by. I am very interested in this latest doc, can't wait to see it. we learned early on in school about the atrocities that my country committed against humanity but we also learned that other countries did not seem to be eager to help these poor people turning them away at the border and so on. Antisemitism never was and never will be something that only happened in Germany. nevertheless i'd like to thank the american people for helping liberate my country at great cost so that i was able to grow up in a democracy! Thank you for your sacrifice!
@elisemiller13 Жыл бұрын
okay Alexa Ales, deflecting much?
@chezmoi42 Жыл бұрын
@@elisemiller13 From what? Germany has worked very hard to overcome the horrible heritage of WWII. America seems hell bent on reviving the worst of our heritage - and theirs.
@kkpenney444 Жыл бұрын
I appreciate your sentiment, Alexa. It's difficult for Americans to unwind our mythologies and we should look to Germany more to learn how. Don't listen to lahla13- sounds like they're deflecting. Also, you may change your mind on baseball if you catch the doc- one of my favorites of Burns'.
@chezmoi42 Жыл бұрын
Wouldn't it be wonderful if Arte picked it up? Sounds like we could all use a little historical reminder of what the rise of the far right can lead to; it's far too prevalent in Europe nowadays, as well as the US.
@fetmar Жыл бұрын
I would have loved a longer interview. It would be amazing if Mr Colbert were to do a longer format interview show one day a week.
@joeanon5788 Жыл бұрын
I'm a real American because.... I came across the Siberian land bridge.......I came over on the Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria......I was a Pilgrim and landed on Plymouth Rock.......I was living in Africa when I was involuntarily enslaved and brought here .........I was one of many people from Europe who could afford passage.....I was a criminal sent to Georgia from Europe.......I payed for passage from China to California, and worked on the railroad........I was from Ireland and Europe and came here due to the great famine......I came here after the Great War to end all wars.....I came after WW2.......I smuggled myself out of Communist Russia.......I was on a helicopter out of Viet Nam.....>..>...>.....we are all immigrants.
@r000ty Жыл бұрын
Having the other side see their perceived enemies as child murdering demons is the dehumanisation process needed for them to justify extreme violence. This is not going to end well, greetings from Germany.
@chezmoi42 Жыл бұрын
What point, exactly, did you want to make? You do not specify which you consider the 'other side'. If you understand anything about American politics, you'd know that it's the far right who actually does call the left 'child murdering demons', and they are the ones who are actually threatening, and committing, extreme violence. Sound familiar? It will not end well if we allow it to continue. This reminder of the consequences of such behavior is a timely warning.
@kiwibob223 Жыл бұрын
That makes no sense.
@tinaperez7393 Жыл бұрын
@@kiwibob223 yes it does. The trick is to dehumanize the other side to the point where you can convince a whole bunch of their enemies that extreme violence against those inhuman "others" is justified and voila, you've got wars of extermination and genocide all over again. And they don't even have to be huge, obvious, or overt - just little and subtle and out of sight - like extreme sentencing of blacks for now nonviolent crimes in the U.S. and outsourcing their labor for free to companies (paint being a huge beneficiary) and even making prisons private - inviting a profit motive into the justice system. And in the past, the forced boarding schools of native American children "educating" their language and culture out of them, an attempt to eradicate their culture.
@le2800 Жыл бұрын
I prided myself on being somewhat of a history buff, but I have to admit that even I wasn't aware of our true contributions to the war. I had also bought into us being the heroes of the story. I will definitely have to check out this documentary. Thank you, Ken Burns and thank you Stephen Colbert.
@Djynni Жыл бұрын
Thank you Stephen for having one of our greatest storytellers on your show.
@PvtEd Жыл бұрын
Wonderful documentaries. No Doubt. How we choose to apply that information is what we are ultimately faced with.
@joanndavis1450 Жыл бұрын
Amen Ken. Thank you for sharing all the stories. You are a treasure. XO
@mspocahontas46 Жыл бұрын
Thank God for Ken Burns!!
@gafls3151 Жыл бұрын
Bless Ken Burns ♥️
@MosmMAli Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns s Mohammed Ali doc was a classic
@pnwmeditations11 ай бұрын
I respect the hell out of Colbert for being able to hold space for such serious conversations on late night TV.
@user-dg9pu4pe9d Жыл бұрын
Too bad this interview was not longer.
@marvinmartin4692 Жыл бұрын
The thing is, the people who really need to see his documentaries never will be willing.
@clumsydad7158 Жыл бұрын
such is life
@kindabluejazz Жыл бұрын
There will be a few that peek, and might be somewhat changed, and might at least show a scowl when they see their neighbors do something abhorrent. There are a few commenters here that say Ken's previous works changed them. But what's most important is children learning the truth and not becoming ignorant clones of their lost parents.
@inthevault9603 Жыл бұрын
Thank you Ken Burns for being who you are and sharing it with us along with all your co-researchers and historians.
@BennilocoLoves Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is one of my heroes! 🫶
@pauline1279 Жыл бұрын
Wish the interview was longer.
@ShantakumarV Жыл бұрын
Sometimes we should mention that the writer of many of KenBurns films( the civil war/the history of baseball/jazz) is a self effacing and master historian called Geoffrey Ward.
@channelthree9424 Жыл бұрын
I never had much interest in the Civil War until I watched Ken Burns’ documentary on it. His documentary on Jazz inspired me to by a saxophone for my 40th birthday. I’ve never finished watching his Baseball documentary but it is definitely educational and informational. For me to enjoy watching anything about baseball is a miracle since I do not like baseball.
@coyoteclockworkstudios3140 Жыл бұрын
I highly recommend "Prosecuting Evil" as a complimentary documentary. It talks about the US's unprecedented stance at the Nuremberg Trails, and in a way, how far we've fallen from that nobility. The US has refused to sign anti-war crime pacts, because "we're not doing war crimes." And every other country has said "But you are, though."
@jorgerodriguez3392 Жыл бұрын
About time someone tells it like it is
@jb5880 Жыл бұрын
A gem.
@TheFriendlyTroll Жыл бұрын
That interview needed to be a lot longer.
@bethb.6813 Жыл бұрын
Change your format, Stephen. I'm glad you shared this news of Ken Burns new documentary on the Holocaust with us at all, but that was about all. No wonder your guest was so nervous. This interview was no more than a skid mark.
@Aww-Geez Жыл бұрын
Glad there is someone able to teach what schools can’t and what kids lose interest in to get interested.
@KennethStone Жыл бұрын
Yep. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
@ninagage2311 Жыл бұрын
I love Ken Burns ❤️
@michaelkerr9942 Жыл бұрын
Brilliant
@m.hernandez1404 Жыл бұрын
Sometimes the truth is hard. That doesn't make it any less real.
@acme.videos Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns' Holocaust documentary is a masterpiece and should be shown in every school.
@jerryguzman1921 Жыл бұрын
He should get the Nobel peace prize. By the way ... Peter Coyote is a great narrator.
@rhiannonrede Жыл бұрын
Ken Burns is my fav film maker. I know that I am always in for a delicious ride. Can't get enough.
@KWd-ir9jc Жыл бұрын
I saw the holocaust documentary and as an African American, I thought we had it terrible but the horror seen in that docunentary was beyond belief. Everyone must see that docu because we are about to relive it again.
@myrrhbear Жыл бұрын
You know, KW000d9, speaking as someone who is Jewish, and who a huge part of my family was murdered in my grandparents generation, whose mom grew up with parents who lived through these insane horrors, all of which is of course very near to home for me and so had a massive impact on my life, not to mention the crazy racism I've experienced first hand many times in my life, it means a lot for me to see what you wrote. I appreciate that. It seems to me that people who have been on the receiving end of hatred and degradation, and dehumanisation, should a) understand each others suffering and be supportive and compassionate towards each other, and should want justice and care for each other, but also b) should learn to recognise the core elements of what led people to treat others these ways (i.e. seeing people who are different in any way as "the other" or as less human, or as not deserving of the same justice, compassion, and human regard as everyone else, and the cruelty that follows), and we should note clearly when people start slipping towards those attitudes, and should speak up and say something. However, I think we should do this from a core of identifying harmful behaviours, but *loving and believing in our fellow human being* - i.e. not hating those who have wronged us, and then propagating more hatred towards those people, but instead trying to build towards a world where nobody hates anyone else - a world where people are doing better at caring about each other, all of us, and realising that we all share this one little world and one story that we each took part in together.