Ken Burns says documenting the American Revolution made him 'optimistic' about the country's future
Documentary filmmaker and historian Ken Burns has cemented his career on bringing history to life. In an interview with “Meet the Press” that aired Sunday, the filmmaker challenged how the nation remembers its founding and the Revolutionary War.“I think we have sanitized the war. And I think it’s out of an understandable fear that if somehow we reveal how dark and bloody it is, that it will somehow diminish those big ideas in Philadelphia in ’76,” Burns told “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen We...
