Ken Burns with Patt Morrison | Ken Burns and the American Story

America at a Crossroads

Aside from being America’s most prolific, acclaimed, and respected
documentary film maker, Ken Burns is an astute observer of
American political life, both past and present. Known for his dogged
commitment to pursuing the truth through locating and uncovering
primary source documents, Ken Burns has had dramatic influence
not only as the greatest documentarian of the day, but also as an
influential thinker and analyst of American life.
In this America at a Crossroads program Pulitzer Prize winning writer,
columnist and broadcast journalist, Patt Morrison, will engage with
Ken Burns, the country’s greatest filmmaker and popular historian,
about the current state of American life, politics and where, through
his special lens, he sees America headed.