Ken Burns

Oh, right.

There you go.

That's right.

And we've been so- Finishing is the hard part.

We have finished, we have not abandoned a project once we started shooting.

We've been very lucky.

Yeah, happy birthday.

Let's have a real celebration.

Stacey Shiv, The American Revolution.

My name is Ken Burns.

I'm a documentary filmmaker.

I've spent the last 10 years working with my colleagues, co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt on a six-part, 12-hour series called The American Revolution.

One of the most remarkable aspects of the Revolutionary War is that you had such different places come together as one nation.

And so it really is actually kind of remarkable the way that that nation ends up coherent, not around culture, not around religion, not around ancient history.

It was coming together around a set of purposes and ideals for one common cause.

Christopher Brown, The American Revolution.

Oh, you're absolutely right.

And it's a really eloquent and elegant way of putting it.

And I think...

you know, we feel ourselves in divided times now.