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Watching the Civil War

A hilarious spoof documentary  on the viewing of Ken Burns’ The Civil War.  The portrayal of the Shelby Foote stand in is priceless.

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Hank
Sunday, April 22, AD 2012 5:55am

IDon

loved it.

But your sure it is a spoof?

Mrs. Zummo
Mrs. Zummo
Sunday, April 22, AD 2012 6:45am

Love love love it! Have you ever seen his doc on the West? It’s just hours and hours of dead Native Americans and Mormons. You would think that the whole Western United States was now some sort of post-apocalyptic waste land.

Joe Green
Joe Green
Sunday, April 22, AD 2012 7:13am

Can’t wait for the romantic comedy based on the Bataan Death March

elm
elm
Sunday, April 22, AD 2012 7:37am

Hey! Are you Big Brother????

I just sat through 3 hours of the Civil War last night. Peeping Tom????
This has to be more than a coincidence. I’m pulling my curtains tonight.

elm
elm
Sunday, April 22, AD 2012 12:42pm

Oh, btw, my spouse just watched this spoof. It just ruined it for us. Now what are we going to do for the next 8 hours?????

Elaine Krewer
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Sunday, April 22, AD 2012 5:23pm

Reminds me of Second Second Life or World of World of Warcraft….

tom
tom
Monday, April 23, AD 2012 7:34am

Ha! love it, right on, as all good parody is. The Shelby Foote guy cracked me up.

DarwinCatholic
Monday, April 23, AD 2012 10:32am

Yeah, the Shelby Foote guy is awesome.

I’m going to have to re-watch The Civil War one of these days. I haven’t seen it since high school, but I watched it as it came out and re-watched it a couple times thereafter, much enjoying it. I haven’t seen any of Burns’ other documentaries, though.

Of course, I’m the one who’s always complaining that modern documentaries are too fluffy and fast paced — modern episodes of Nova seem too gimmicky, and virtually anything the History Channel does drives me up the wall. So maybe I’m just attached to dullness. I have fond memories of some of the older BBC documentary series as well: Kenneth Clarke’s Civilization certainly managed what could at best be called a stately pace (though re-watching it more recently with the kids I was more struck by his anti-Christian attitudes than I had been as a kid) and I always loved Connections which charted the course of related inventions through each episode.

Maggie McT
Maggie McT
Monday, April 23, AD 2012 10:49am

Dear, oh dear. People: the documentary was an introduction. It introduced many people to the Civil War and its consequences. Me, for one. I began reading about the Civil War because of this series, and haven’t stopped. So, okay, there are things to criticize, but it provided a good outline for people who knew little or nothing at all about this important part of American history.

Pinky
Pinky
Monday, April 23, AD 2012 11:35am

Funny video, but now I want to watch a 30-second documentary about the experience of watching it.

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