Television
Jun 25, 2015
Filmmaker Ken Burns joins Morning Joe to talk with Mike Barnicle

Filmmaker Ken Burns joins Morning Joe to talk with Mike Barnicle and the panel about the upcoming PBS re-broadcast of his popular, award-winning documentary “The Civil War,” made all the more relevant by recent calls across the country to remove the Confederate flag from government sites. Watch the full discussion here and listen to Burns provide historical context for recent issues of racism and the lingering influence of the American Civil War, in which maintaining slavery and opposing civil rights was indeed a primary motivator for the South’s rebellion. Only on MSNBC.