Tag: Ken Burns
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Nation & World
Harvard doctor recalls fall of Saigon
Harvard doctor Bertram Zarins recalls watching copters being pushed off his ship, operating on some of the last people to leave Vietnam as Saigon fell.
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Nation & World
A film to ‘unpack’ Vietnam
In visit to Harvard, Ken Burns previews part of his film designed to “unpack” the Vietnam War.
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Nation & World
A family history of wartime heroism
Artemis Joukowsky worked with Ken Burns on a documentary about his grandparents, Waitstill and Martha Sharp, who helped hundreds escape Nazi death squads in from 1939 to 1940.
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Nation & World
When the sky turned black
Director Ken Burns presented clips of his new documentary on the Dust Bowl at Harvard’s Boylston Hall, talking about the creative process that he uses in his films.