[Jack Black]

PBS hopes it becomes as definitive a record of the World War II experience as Burns' "The Civil War" was for that conflict, and as popular.

Fat chance! "The Civil War" is not "a definitive record" of the Civil War. It's a movie made about the Civil War 150 years after it ended. The definative record has to be something much closer in time.

WW2 has been covered in many more movies, documentary films, the entire History Channel and the Military Channel are full of definative history of WW2, including on camera interviews with key players.

[mware]

Burns used documents, diaries, letters and photographs from the Civil War to tell the story, add on the sound track and I think there was no better telling of the Civil War, at least to date.