Wow, what a triumph this documentary is! Ken Burns is to documentaries what Muhammad Ali was to boxing, the Greatest!
I must admit when I heard this series was in four 2 hour parts, I wondered what more can possibly be said about Muhammad Ali. But trust me there is not one boring second in this documentary. I have seen all the Muhammad Ali ones and outside of When We Were Kings, which focuses on his trip and fight with Foreman in Africa, this Ken Burns one is the definitive one and if you were going to see only one, this is it. Muhammad Ali is known by sound bites and excepts but here we see better the contexts where his words were spoken. The footage restoration is amazing! Malcolm X has never looked more magnificent on film. This is one for the ages, after Civil War, Jazz and more Ken Burns does it again. I hope he gets decorated for telling American history honestly.
I must admit when I heard this series was in four 2 hour parts, I wondered what more can possibly be said about Muhammad Ali. But trust me there is not one boring second in this documentary. I have seen all the Muhammad Ali ones and outside of When We Were Kings, which focuses on his trip and fight with Foreman in Africa, this Ken Burns one is the definitive one and if you were going to see only one, this is it. Muhammad Ali is known by sound bites and excepts but here we see better the contexts where his words were spoken. The footage restoration is amazing! Malcolm X has never looked more magnificent on film. This is one for the ages, after Civil War, Jazz and more Ken Burns does it again. I hope he gets decorated for telling American history honestly.