There are greater and lesser works within Ken Burns' PBS documentaries, and 'Country Music' — an eight-part, 16-hour epic about a lot more than done-me-wrong songs — distinctly falls into the latter scale, writes CNN's Brian Lowry
Ken Burns' PBS documentaries are always classy affairs, linking a single topic to the vast rubric of American history. Still, there are greater and lesser works within that filmography, and"Country Music" -- an eight-part, 16-hour epic about a lot more than done-me-wrong songs -- distinctly falls into the latter scale.
Over the last 30 years, Burns' signature war trilogy --"The Civil War,""The War" and"The Vietnam War" -- provides the spine of his work for public television. Yet the collaboration also has devoted admirable time to"The National Parks,""Baseball" and"Prohibition," albeit with less operatic heft."Country Music" is at its best, not surprisingly, in the early going.
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