My guest today is the renowned documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.

His epic 11-hour miniseries to Civil War is the most watch show in the history of public

television.

He's covered baseball, jazz, the National Park's country music in the Vietnam War, just

to name a few.

But I have to say, as much as I enjoyed his earlier work, nothing he's done has affected

me as deeply.

As his most recent film, I'm the Holocaust.

The film is basically asking at elemental levels, what did we know, what didn't we know,

what should we have known, what did we do, what did we not do, what should we have done?

Welcome to People I mostly admire with Steve Levin.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how people learn, and I've become increasingly convinced

that film is the most powerful teaching tool we have, so I'm really looking forward to

talking today with Ken Burns, who's probably taught Americans more about history than anyone

else.

Hey Ken, thank you so much for being here.

It's an incredible pleasure to talk to you today, even more so because I've recently

moved to Germany, and I'm missing the U.S. and you've come to symbolize America as

much as baseball, hot dogs, and apple pies, so I feel like a little bit more at home with

you here.

Well, if you see the U.S. and the Holocaust, we can connect the bridge, but not in the

best of ways.

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