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  1. vulture sports
    Ken Burns Is Not Here for ESPN’s Michael Jordan Doc, The Last Dance“I find it the opposite direction of where we need to be going.”
    By Halle Kiefer
  2. vulture sports
    Ken Burns Revives Sports, Lets You Stream His Epic Baseball Documentary for FreePeanuts and Cracker Jacks not included.
    By Devon Ivie
  3. peter coyote
    The Golden Voice Behind All Those Ken Burns DocumentariesIf you’ve ever been entranced by the narration of a Ken Burns doc, you have Peter Coyote to thank.
    By Tim Greiving
  4. country music
    The Story of Country Music Is Too Vast for Even Ken Burns’s 16-Hour Doc to TellThe greatest compliment you could pay an undertaking like this is to wish there were more of it.
    By Craig Jenkins
  5. tv review
    Ken Burns’s Country Music Is Powerful, Beautiful, and Somehow Still IncompleteThe 16-hour, eight-part series doesn’t have as firm a handle on the big-picture stuff as it wants you to think.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  6. The Vietnam War Is a Staggering Achievement in Documentary StorytellingThe 18-hour nonfiction epic is a thorough, engrossing dive into history.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  7. documentaries
    Ken Burns Wants to Make an Obama Documentary“It would just be him. And then, in ten years, we’d add all the other things.”
    By Jackson McHenry
  8. Ken Burns Talks of a New Baseball Doc“I’m sort of obligated.”
    By Emma Barrie
  9. scores
    Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross Scoring Ken Burns DocThe ten-part doc premieres on PBS in September.
    By Dee Lockett
  10. last night on late night
    See Ken Burns’s Merciless Ken BurnsIt’s a joke about his name!
    By Nate Jones
  11. last night on late night
    Mindy Kaling Shares Stephen Colbert BloopersLiteral church giggles.
    By Halle Kiefer
  12. Stephen Colbert Instantly Falls for Mindy Kaling, Tituss Burgess, and Ken […]Here’s a clip from last night’s Late Show, where Stephen Colbert heads over to the craft services table before the show and meets his Mindy […]
    By Megh Wright
  13. the history channel
    Ken Burns and the Myth of Theodore RooseveltTeddy wasn’t quite the man the PBS series makes him out to be.
    By Michael Wolraich
  14. tv review
    TV Review: Ken Burns’s The RooseveltsThe seven-part series debuted Sunday night.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  15. tv review
    TV Review: Ken Burns’s Documentary The AddressAiring tonight on PBS.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  16. Ken Burns Made a Short Documentary About Eugene Mirman Here’s a mini-documentary that Ken Burns made about Eugene Mirman for Hampshire College, a school they both attended. Watch Ken Burns bring […]
    By Bradford Evans
  17. miniseries
    Ken Burns Country Music Doc Coming to PBS in ’18Mark your calendar for four years from now!
    By Margaret Lyons
  18. free speech
    Stephen Colbert vs. Louis C.K.: Who Gettysburg Addresses Better?Or maybe Usher beats ‘em both.
    By Jesse David Fox
  19. history
    Tom Hanks, Ken Burns Joining ForcesFor a miniseries about Jack Johnson.
    By Margaret Lyons
  20. movies
    Ken Burns Fights City Hall Over His New Film on the Central Park Jogger Case“It’s really about letting people get to know the Central Park Five as individuals.”
    By Boris Kachka
  21. tv review
    TV Review: Ken Burns’s The Dust BowlKen Burns’s astounding documentary is about disaster and survival, yes. But mostly it’s about clouds and faces.
    By Matt Zoller Seitz
  22. pbs
    Ken Burns Is Making a Roosevelt DocumentaryWith Meryl Streep as the voice of Eleanor.
    By Margaret Lyons
  23. ken burns
    Listen to Ken Burns’s Thoughts on StorytellingMore like “Ken Burns’s Thoughts on Basically Everything.”
    By Eliot Glazer
  24. pbs
    Ken Burns’s Dust Bowl Doc Will Air in November[Slow pan across depress-o-ville photos.]
    By Margaret Lyons
  25. beef
    Ken Burns Really Hates Reality TV“What I reject is the idea that this has any intrinsic value whatsoever other than voyeurism.”
    By Willa Paskin
  26. vulture recommends
    This Week on Vulture Recommends: New Picks From Vampire Weekend, Ken Burns, Nicole Krauss, Jason Moran, and Our CriticsWouldn’t it be nice to have TV-doc legend Ken Burns pick the best baseball movies, or recent National Book Award nominee Nicole Krauss select the best confessionals?
    By Logan Hill
  27. Exhausted Ken Burns Urges Baseball To StopThe Onion, Exhausted Ken Burns Urges Baseball To Stop: “‘I can’t do this anymore,’ Burns said. ‘The more baseball that is played, the more I […]
    By Adam Frucci
  28. late shifting
    Jimmy Kimmel Valiantly Continues His Assault on Jay Leno, Ken Burns StyleThis is easily the most riveting documentary we’ve seen since ‘Man on Wire.’
    By Mark Graham
  29. quote machine
    Stephen Colbert Isn’t Into Libraries (And So Can You!)Plus Ken Burns, Evan Rachel Wood, and Kelly Clarkson!