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Ken Burns Gives Nantucket Film Festival Audiences a Glimpse of His Latest Doc ‘Leonardo da Vinci’
Ken Burns attended the 29th annual Nantucket Film Festival to give audiences a glimpse of his latest PBS documentary 'Leonardo da Vinci.'
“Leonardo da Vinci,” which begins airing in November, marks the first project Burns has directed that unfolds entirely outside the continental United States. Currently, the director is working on several documentaries, including ones on Lyndon B. Johnson, the American Revolution and Barack Obama. It’s so contemporary.” If I told you I was making a film about mass demonstrations taking place against the current administration all around the country; about a White House in disarray and obsessed with leaks; about asymmetrical warfare that confounded the mighty the U.S. military; about huge document drops of stolen classified material and accusations that a political party reached out to a foreign power to affect a national election — you would say that we are talking about now.
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