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Jack Valentino

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1. I presume that is PBS.... since Poldark ended, haven't had a Sunday night show on PBS which
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 12:21 AM
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I followed...... Am I right, and do you have a scheduled time?

TommyT139

(2,071 posts)
5. Successive nights
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 12:58 AM
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Starting Nov. 16th, two hours each night through that Friday. I think The Civil War was shown the same way, and it was very successful.

In my area it starts at 8pm and that episode repeats at 10pm and 4am.

https://kenburns.com/films/the-american-revolution/

https://www.pbs.org/kenburns/the-american-revolution

Near the bottom of the PBS link is a note that it will be viewable through the PBS app. The app is free but I don't know if the show will be too - I hope so, since if it was on TV it would be free.

Jack Valentino

(3,989 posts)
3. I'm a big fan of Ken Burns history work.... here's a tidbit cameo that many may not know about---
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 12:38 AM
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He appeared briefly in the film "Gettysburg", as an aide to General Hancock, who mounted his horse and rode along his lines during the tremendous Confederate cannonade against the Union center just prior to 'Picket's charge' on the last day of the battle, for the purpose of bolstering the morale of his troops who were the main target of that artillery barrage---

(I recognized him immediately because I was also seeing a videotape about 'the making of "Gettysburg" in which he was prominently featured)

AI: Yes, filmmaker Ken Burns made a cameo appearance in the film Gettysburg as an aide to General Hancock, the soldier who tells Hancock,
"Please, sir, you must get down. We cannot spare you"---

to which Hancock replied, in what I consider one of the greatest lines in that film,
"There are times when a Corps commander's life does not count." !!!

Still one of my favorite movies, and the best I can think of
which were about the Civil war--- my favorite part still being Jeff Daniels' portrayal of
Colonel Chamberlain and the 2nd Maine's defense of Little Round Top,
for which Chamberlain later won the 'Medal of Honor'






yaesu

(8,807 posts)
4. The way things turned out if I had a time machine I would go back and try to talk George out of that revolution thingy
Tue Nov 11, 2025, 12:41 AM
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