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Ken Burns America Collection - Huey Long

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0841887051309
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: PBS Paramount
Manufacturer: PBS Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: PBS Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 52687
Studio: PBS Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: 1987

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com:
The story of Huey Long is the quintessential drama of power and ethics. To his constituents, he was a populist hero. To his critics, he was the unscrupulous 'dictator of Louisiana' who didn't break the law, but used the law to achieve his own ends. A towering figure on the political landscape, Louisiana's infamous governor and United States senator may well have wound up in the White House, had he not been felled by an assassin's bullet in 1935. Long was the inspiration for Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel All the King's Men (a film version of which earned Broderick Crawford an Academy Award). As this fascinating documentary by Ken Burns (The Civil War, Baseball, Jazz) vividly illustrates, truth is even more compelling than fiction. Originally broadcast on the award-winning PBS series The American Experience, Huey Long painstakingly charts Long's inexorable rise to power. Archival footage and interviews with Louisiana natives, politicians, family members, historians, and political colleagues bring Long to thundering and bombastic life. --Donald Liebenson




Rating: - hard-to-find information
This is an excellent video for those interested in Huey Long. It gives more insight into his personality ... Read More

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Rating: - Do not watch!
I just watched this film and was very unhappy with it. I expected more out of KB and thought that this movie ... Read More

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Rating: - Ken Burns at his best.
From the interviews to the music and photos, this is a very informative and inspiring piece. Long was a complex ... Read More

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Rating: - The Kingfish
For those of us old evough to remembr anything about politics in the 30s, this is must viewing. Huey Long once ... Read More

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Rating: - Excellent Documentary
Hard to capture the life of such a fascinating and complex character in a documentary, but Burns does as good a ... Read More

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