Burns’ Baseball series was full of half-truths and myths that were used as factual material. I talked to a gentleman who is a baseball expert and was an adviser on the documentary. He was originally selected to give his unbiased insights in an interview to be filmed. However, he was bumped instead and in his place was someone a bit more, shall we say, opinionated and biased in a certain direction.
Burns has had an agenda in every documentary he has produced. The facts never get in that agenda’s way.
I agree, nevertheless, I loved the Baseball documentary, as well as his Civil War series. I think he’s elevated the documentary to a new level.
I can’t watch his stuff. His documentaries just have a coating of liberalism all over them.
Of course when real historians jump on him for having the Monitor and the Merrimac fighting it out in the open ocean instead of the confined spaces of Hampton Roads he can make corrections.