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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Ken Burns's latest on The Greatest

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is There Any Subject Too Big or Too Complex for a Burns Documentary?

I can hardly think of a bigger personality. I would suggest that, you know, louis armstrong comes as close to mohammed ali in terms of the sheer force of personality and of goodness. We're never going to run out of topics in american history. And we're just asking some essential questions about who we are as a people. What does an investigation of a past tell us about these people who like to call themselves America? It's always something compelling at the same time. This is an untidy film. This has got loose endss, as all life does. People that are closest to us remain inscrutable to each other always. And so there's always

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