Ken Burns’ next documentary is about the US response to the Holocaust
msn.com© (photo credit: Daniel J. White/PBS) Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns filming interviews for "The Roosevelts" in 2014. For his next historical deep dive, famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is exploring America’s relationship to the Holocaust.
Tentatively titled “The US and the Holocaust,” the three-part miniseries set to air Sept. 18-20 on PBS is co-directed and co-produced by Burns and his longtime collaborators Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein.
Burns’ production company says the series “dispels the competing myths that Americans either were ignorant of what was happening to Jews in Europe, or that they merely looked on with callous indifference. ”In a 2019 interview with Esquire, the Emmy-winning director said the series would be “all about immigration and who’s an American and who’s not an American. ”Like all of Burns’ projects, the documentary has taken years to make.
But it will now be the next release from his production house, as he announced in a promo message that aired last week to accompany his latest PBS documentary, “Benjamin Franklin. ”“Our next film is one of the most important we’ve ever worked on,” Burns, the director of such works as “The Civil War,” “Jazz” and “The Roosevelts” told viewers, by way of introducing the series.
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