Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns: Season 1

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Baseball, A Film By Ken Burns

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PBS | Season Premiere Date: September 18, 1994

Summary: Directed by Ken Burns, this nine-part PBS documentary miniseries tells you everything you ever needed to know about baseball history.

Genre(s): Sports, Movie/Mini-Series, News/Documentary, Documentary

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S1:E9. Inning Nine: Home
Air Date: September 26, 1994
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S1:E8. Inning Eight: A Whole New Ball Game
Air Date: September 25, 1994
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S1:E7. Inning Seven: The Capital of Baseball
Air Date: September 24, 1994

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David Hiltbrand

Jun 26, 2013

Baseball is a monumental achievement, perhaps too monumental for TV. For fans, it is a sumptuous feast. But its 18 1/2-hour length will daunt those without an acute interest in the game. Read full review

Ken Tucker

Jun 11, 2013

Wildly excessive, regularly boring, and, at regular intervals, great, clever fun. Read full review

Richard Zoglin

Jul 2, 2013

For baseball lovers it's the World Series, All-Star Game and Fan Appreciation Day rolled into one, with all the hot dogs and frosty malts you can wolf down. It is also a bit much. Read full review

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juliankennedy23

Jun 23, 2014

Score 6/10 Ken Burns has created a documentary that resembles baseball itself. Overlong with not enough action and everyone around you yapping how owners, players and fans have ruined the game. On the plus side disk nine's coverage of the Red Sox curse is a delight. You can see the pain onScore 6/10 Ken Burns has created a documentary that resembles baseball itself. Overlong with not enough action and everyone around you yapping how owners, players and fans have ruined the game. On the plus side disk nine's coverage of the Red Sox curse is a delight. You can see the pain on the faces of the fans as they discuss Bucky Dent's home run or game six. This segment also highlights another strength of using non-experts to discuss the game they love. It is quite refreshing.

On the bad side outside of sheer length is the constant drumbeat about racism in the game. While Burn's jazz miniseries and certainly the civil war had a place to discuss racism it starts to seem out of place here. There is not a disk or a segment that escapes the constant barrage of how racist baseball was and is. Truth be told baseball reflected America at the times it was played and was neither significantly more or less racist than America as a whole.

To long and slow for its own good Ken Burns baseball sounds like the old uncle repeating the same stories long after he made his point.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

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Series Overview
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 18, 1994
Season 2

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- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: September 28, 2010
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: September 18, 1994
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  S1:E9. Inning Nine: Home
  Air Date: September 26, 1994
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  S1:E8. Inning Eight: A Whole New Ball Game
  Air Date: September 25, 1994
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  S1:E7. Inning Seven: The Capital of Baseball
  Air Date: September 24, 1994
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  S1:E6. Inning Six: The National Pastime
  Air Date: September 23, 1994
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  S1:E5. Inning Five: Shadow Ball
  Air Date: September 22, 1994
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  S1:E4. Inning Four: A National Heirloom
  Air Date: September 21, 1994
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  S1:E3. Inning Three: The Faith of Fifty Million People
  Air Date: September 20, 1994
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  S1:E2. Inning Two: Something Like a War
  Air Date: September 19, 1994
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  S1:E1. Inning One: Our Game
  Air Date: September 18, 1994