The Statue of America

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Summary: What else do you expect?
Review: It's a spendid Ken Burns. It's actually the biography of a nice lady, the Statue of Liberty. It's everything about her "pregnacy", her birth, her youth and her life.

But there is more, and you will see a nice slice of NY history too!

Good job!

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Summary: What is liberty?
Review: Ken Burns's "Statute of Liberty" is about one of the greatest icon of America. In usual Burns' style, he presents the subject through well-shot video, interesting and informative interviews with historians, interviews with immigrants.

More important than the Statue of Liberty, the movie addresses the question "What is liberty?" and "What does liberty mean to me?" I love documentaries and history...and thoroughly enjoy history as presented by Ken Burns. If you like history too, this movie will not disappoint.

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Summary: Celebrating Freedom and the American Experiment
Review: What does liberty and freedom mean - to 20th century Americans, 19th century Frenchmen, and our 18th century founding fathers? Statue of Liberty, Ken Burns' award-winning documentary originally broadcast in 1985, asks that simple question in a refreshingly poignant manner. 21st century audiences will recognize the universal spirit and appreciate the classical questions raised in this moving film.
Conceived, directed, and broadcast long before Burns' became an American television legend for his insightful The Civil War and Jazz series, this inspiring documentary features illuminating interviews with Mario Cuomo, Barbara Jordan, James Baldwin, and Jerzy Kosinski reflecting on the unique aspirations of the American experiment in personal liberty. Burns, like in his more famous documentaries, combines a vast array of primary source material (diary entries, letters, newspaper articles) along with photographs, paintings, and drawings to tell the riveting story behind the making, exporting, and celebrating of the Statue of Liberty in New York's Harbor. Historian David McCullough provides, as he so often does on PBS documentaries, a calm narration sensitive to both the text and context of historical figures and events.
One can only hope that this outstanding work will be shown to schoolchildren, taught in citizenship classes, and kept in libraries across the United States and France. The enlightenment ideals of personal liberty still need to be remembered, celebrated, and protected.