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Ken Burns Contextualize The Civil War

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The Civil War produced by Ken Burns’ qualifies as an immensely powerful, educative and interesting film production. Due to the fact that writing was popular amongst Americans, Burns’ contextualised the civil war by representing not just the writings of the great leaders and generals but also the ones from the wives, the doctors, the farmers, the newspaper editors etc... More importantly the words of the soldiers involved in this vicious war. Burns showed the importance of fighting this war by going through the lives of average people caught up in events they may not have completely comprehended, but which they believed in. Burns used maps, historical context, photographs, music and speech to teach us the story of the second most influential

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