Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Mali (A) on January 22, 2005 at 19:16:57

In Reply to: As a documentary filmmaker myself... (long) posted by EBerlin on January 22, 2005 at 17:43:00:

In addition, his style was stolen from a series of historical documentaries that aired on NBC, I believe, in the very early 60s. I remember ones in particular on the West and on the Civil War. This would not matter that much except that he and his worshipers, the press, and PBS hyped this "Burns" style of historical documentary as something new and innovative when it was nothing of the sort. Now and in recent years we have been inundated with this type of historical TV documentary, in particular on the History Channel. Despite the fact that I am often keenly interested in the subject matter of many of these shows, I find them invariably unwatchable. The exceptions are almost always British productions.