The Civil War - A Film by Ken Burns [DVD]Amazon. com The most successful public television miniseries in American history, the 11 hour Civil War didn't just captivate a nation, reteaching to us our history in narrative terms; it actually also invented a new film language taken from its creator. When people describe documentaries using the "Ken Burns approach," its style is understood: voice over narrators reading letters and documents dramatically and stating the writer's name at their