It's not an either/or situation. People can watch documentaries about past events that helps them to make better decisions in the present.

Hugely popular where? I can count on one hand the number of times I have heard anyone mention PBS outside of children's educational programming. And I've lived in the northeast and the south.

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Horatio’s drive is my favorite as well!

YES! I also watched this on Netflix back in the day. Loved it. They used to have such awesome documentaries.

I remember one that was about those people who dress up as movie characters to get money from tourists in Hollywood - I think outside the Chinese theatre. Can't for the life of me remember what that doc was called?

EDIT: The Reinactors - thats what it was!

I read the title as "profanity-prone woman" and thought the thumbnail was Miriam Margolyes

he’s talking about maga dumb assess needing to see this, but they won’t watch cause they believe pbs will make them gay or something.

Ate at Shopsins in Essex Market when I last visited NYC (I'm from UK) in early 2016.

Was hungover to fuck and totally bamboozled by the insane menu (Google it!). The server was the owner's son and was, to us, an incredibly amusing blend of slightly begrudging hospitality and knowing Noo Yoik verbal abuse.

Amazing food, I still think about those mac & cheese pancakes with brisket hash. Thanks for linking the video, didn't know it existed and am looking forward to watching it.

Oh cool, another attempt to blame the US Immigration Act of 1924 for the deaths of Jews in the Holocaust. As usual, it ignores the fact that German Jews (i.e., those presumably most aware of the bad things the Nazis were doing) were largely unaffected by the law and still didn't choose to emigrate to the United States.

To be totally honest I genuinely doubt that Hitler cared, though it probably factored into the decision to just try and exterminate the Jews altogether.

At the end of the day, Hitler shot himself and that lady is like 105.

The Civil War gets a lot of criticism for heavily featuring Shelby Foote, who is controversial at best.

Buried by the Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper > An in-depth look at how The New York Times failed in its coverage of the fate of European Jews from 1939–45. It examines how the decisions that were made at The Times ultimately resulted in the minimizing and misunderstanding of modern history's worst genocide. Laurel Leff, a veteran journalist and professor of journalism, recounts how personal relationships at the newspaper, the assimilationist tendencies of The Times' Jewish owner, and the ethos of mid-century America, all led The Times to consistently downplay news of the Holocaust. It recalls how news of Hitler's 'final solution' was hidden from readers and - because of the newspaper's influence on other media - from America at large. Buried by The Times is required reading for anyone interested in America's response to the Holocaust and for anyone curious about how journalists determine what is newsworthy.

All the News That’s Fit to Print

The Nazi Hydra In America [How America's Right Wing Politicians Are Plunging The Country Into A Fascist Police State]

Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law

this was on the sundance channel or independent film channel back in the day.

This documentary was gold the whole way through. So glad it highlighted the truth of Americans as an people and our institutions were so isolationist at the time. Plus the xenophobia around taking Jews. The hypocrisy of Jim Crow America was also well highlighted.

Same here actually.

Best quote of the doc:

"You know there's a lot of things on our menu if you put it together, you can go someplace I've never been. I took a Banana Boat and I put bananas in it and I took ice cream scoop and I made pulled pork and coleslaw in a... like an ice cream sundae, I called it a BBQ Banana Split. It's almost like putting your dick into the wrong hole, there's like a thrill to it. There's friction that occurs when you put an ingredient in an improper dish. That's the basis for all fusion cooking is that there's a sexual friction that's caused by putting the wrong food in the wrong place and sometimes it works but not always."

You completely ignored their point lmao

One of the things the documentary certainly highlights is that it's very likely that many, many deaths which occurred would have likely been prevented by the millions of people trying to flee that were rejected by every country. Even Hitler realized that the world's public reluctance to accept Jewish refugees meant they were likely to turn a blind eye when the alternative was allowing them to immigrate.

It was an easy one to miss, but is my all time favorite Ken Burn's doc. "Horatio's Drive" i don't wan to spoil it but def give it a shot!

It was certainly a very different perspective on a topic that has been heavily studied. But then, Americans do love an unexamined heroic narrative. I knew the general info presented but appreciated how much new information I saw. My husband, who isn't a history buff, was absolutely horrified. He knew a tiny bit, but most of what Americans see is footage of US troops liberating camps, not the years they spent ignoring them.

Yes!!! This is my all time favorite doc!

Absolutely one of the best documentaries I’ve ever seen! I’m so happy to see this on Reddit.

The whole program is a tour de force. I couldn’t binge it, it was hard to finish a whole episode. It should be required civic training for every high school graduate.

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I just watched it myself and I had no idea! It should be required viewing in all American high school history classes. I knew we were mostly isolationists at the time, but wow.