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Ken Burns and Scout Tufankjian: Documenting History
October 24, 2009
Ken Burns documentary filmmaker, Florentine Films
Jared Bowen reporter, Greater Boston
Scout Tufankjian photojournalist

Documentarians work to answer the question, "Who are we?" Ken Burns, lauded as "the country's most famous documentarian" by The Los Angeles Times, shows clips and talks about his latest film and book, The National Parks: America's Best Idea. Journalist Scout Tufankjian tells how she reluctantly drove to New Hampshire in 2006 to cover a long-shot candidate named Obama. She stayed and became the only independent photojournalist to cover the entire campaign, chronicled in her book Yes We Can. Hosted by Jared Bowen, Emmy award-winning reporter from WGBH's Greater Boston.

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Image of Ken Burns: National Parks - America's Best Idea
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Andy Garcia, Peter Coyote, Kevin Conway, Philip Bosco, Adam Arkin
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Image of The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945
Author: Ken Burns, Geoffrey C. Ward
Publisher: Knopf (2007)
Binding: Hardcover, 480 pages
Image of The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Garrison Keillor, Morgan Freeman, Jason Robards, Sam Waterston, David McCullough
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Image of Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Sam Waterston, Murphy Guyer, Adam Arkin, Hal Holbrook
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Image of Baseball - A Film By Ken Burns
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Arthur Ashe, Roger Angell, Bud Abbott, Hank Aaron, Mamie Ruth Moberly
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Image of Ken Burns Presents: The West
Director: Stephen Ives
Starring: Matthew Broderick, Philip Bosco, Adam Arkin, George Aguilar, Peter Coyote
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Image of Jazz : A Film By Ken Burns
Director:
Starring:
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Image of Ken Burns - American Lives (Thomas Jefferson / Lewis & Clark / Frank Lloyd Wright / Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B Anthony / Mark Twain / Horatio's Drive / Unforgivable Blackness)
Director: Ken Burns;Lynn Novick
Starring: Julie Harris, Philip Bosco, Adam Arkin, Hal Holbrook, Edward Herrmann
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Image of Ken Burns' America Collection
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Ken Burns
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Image of Yes We Can: Barack Obama's History-Making Presidential Campaign
Author: Scout Tufankjian
Publisher: powerHouse Books (2008)
Binding: Hardcover, 191 pages
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