2. Ken Burns: The Civil War
Site score:8, IMDb score:11 Overall score: 19
Directed by Ken Burns
Year: 1990
It took five years of production for Ken Burns and his team to boil down some 16,000 photographs, letters and other documents from Civil War into 10 hours of material, divided into 9 episodes. The series is praised as one of the best programs about the Civil War and it managed to reignite the interest for it with the American public, largely uninterested in it before the season aired. It also gave birth to “Ken Burns effect”, a technique where the camera pans and zooms at the photographs and other still imagery, widely used today. In 2015, 25 years after the premiere, the series was digitally remastered and brought to HD standard.
