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Home » Ken Burns

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Posted inColumns & Opinion

Still the greatest

by Ben Joravsky September 28, 2021September 28, 2021

Muhammad Ali is so great, an eight-hour documentary can’t even tell the full story.

Posted inArts & Culture

Born Ready, In to America, and seven more new theater reviews

by Chicago Reader March 23, 2017August 18, 2021

A kinder, gentler All About Eve and a multivarious chronicle of the migrant experience are among this week’s best bets.

Posted inBlogs

A local Holocaust survivor tells his story in Ken Burns’s Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War

by Leah Pickett September 6, 2016August 18, 2021

Peter Braunfeld, who now lives in Champaign, is part of the new documentary.

Posted inBlogs

Honoring baseball photographers—an idea goes nowhere

by Michael Miner October 8, 2014August 18, 2021

Photographers might deserve a spot at Cooperstown, but they didn’t get one.

Posted inBlogs

Ken Burns presents The Roosevelts

by Aimee Levitt September 11, 2014August 18, 2021

The documentarian is back with 14 hours on America’s most lovable political family.

Mad about Mad Men
Posted inArts & Culture

Mad Men, Mad World looks at the 60s through smoke-colored glasses

by Janet Potter March 25, 2013August 19, 2021

Mad Men, Mad World looks at the 60s through smoke-colored glasses.

Posted inBlogs

Reader’s Agenda Wed 2/6: Ken Burns, In>Time Performance Festival, and the Vaccines

by Drew Hunt February 6, 2013August 18, 2021

What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

A young man is interrogated in The Central Park Five.
Posted inFilm

The thin blue lie in The Central Park Five

by J.R. Jones December 5, 2012August 19, 2021

The Central Park Five revisits the rape that sent five innocent men to jail

Posted inBlogs

Chicago International Film Festival, and the rest of this week’s movies

by J.R. Jones October 11, 2012August 19, 2021

New reviews and notable screenings in this week’s issue

Ovo
Posted inArts & Culture

Culture Vultures: Cirque du Soleil’s Ovo, Man U versus Chicago Fire, and more

by Kevin Warwick July 28, 2011August 19, 2021

In-the-know Chicagoans tell the Reader what they’re watching, reading, and seeing

Posted inBlogs

Inaugural Lincoln post

by J.R. Nelson December 7, 2009August 19, 2021

Abraham Lincoln blog.

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