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The controversy surrounding the absence of Hispanic soldiers from Ken Burns’ upcoming PBS documentary The War may or may not be over. But Burns appears to have done all he’s going to do. The Associated Press reports that Burns added 28-minutes to the seven-part film.
Profiles of two Hispanics will conclude the first and sixth episodes […]

According to this story in the Washington Post:
Filmmaker Ken Burns reached an agreement yesterday with two advocacy organizations that have pressured him to amend his World War II documentary to include more material about Latinos’ contribution to the American war effort.
The agreement between Burns’s production company, Florentine Films, and the two Latino groups appears crafted […]

The controversy about Ken Burns’ WWII doc, its lack of Hispanic viewpoints, and what people have offered/threatened to do continues. In case you haven’t been following all this, here’s a background story about the controversy from the Associated Press. And here’s a link to previous truefilm posts about all this.
While your correspondent has been traveling, […]

A bit more news on yesterday’s story about the PBS promise to amend the upcoming Ken Burns World War II doc to include stories about US Latino veterans.
The Associated Press has a longer story.
The Defend the Honor Campaign issued a victorious press release. And their website has a whole bunch of background material and links.
And […]

This just in from the Associated Press:
PBS promised Wednesday to amend Ken Burns’ upcoming documentary series on World War II to include stories about Latino veterans after activists complained he ignored their contributions to the American effort.
Burns has also agreed to hire a Latino producer to help create the additional content, PBS said.
The Burns doc, […]

Ken Burns’ and Lynn Novick’s upcoming seven-part series on World War II, The War, “tells the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of nearly 50 men and women from four quintessentially American towns.”
In this film, everyone on camera was directly affected by the war, either on the battlefield or at home. […]

Bill Moyers has a new public-affairs series coming to PBS with the same name as his 1970s series, Bill Moyers Journal. The press release says “Moyers is re-inventing the broadcast for the 21st century” which appears to mean there’s a podcast and a Web forum. We’ll find out Friday nights starting in April. The premiere, […]

Current published their annual survey of what producers have in the works for PBS. Info on America at a Crossroads, Ken Burns’ film about WWII, Frederick Wiseman’s new film, and much much more. The very long list is here.