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>look at a ranking of Ken Burns documentairs
>The Civil War only ranked #22
>This mega-popular film aged about as well as a glass of milk. It’s epic, to be sure. And the letters from soldiers punctuate the film with a lovely poignancy. But none of that is enough to override the docu-series' central sin: its reliance on Lost Cause history and the expertise of controversial pseudo-historian Shelby Foote. Serious students of history will audibly gasp when they hear Foote claim that the Civil War happened “because we failed to do the thing we have a real genius for, which is compromise.”
