Director Ken Burns will speak at the Belo Mansion in August.

For decades, Ken Burns has been making tragic, controversial, life-altering and beautiful documentaries. (That intro leaves no question, I suppose: I’m a fan). Burns has brought such great films to the airwaves as The War, a PBS series about World War II; The National Parks, a devastatingly gorgeous movie about people devoting themselves to the land they love, and The Tenth Inning, a total hit about baseball’s tumultuous history.

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Burn’s newest movie, Prohibition, explores the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed.

Because I watched the first season of Boardwalk Empire, I know this is going to be good.

Here’s how all of this applies to us here in East Dallas: Burns is speaking next month, Wed. August 17 at 6 p.m., to be exact,  at the Belo Mansion, 2102 Ross. The program is a collaboration between the World Affairs Council and the Dallas Bar Association and tickets are only $10 a pop.

Talmage Boston (he’s good too—we saw a lot of him at the Mayborn) will interview Burns onstage and show parts of the movie.

For questions about the event, please contact Jocelyn Lancaster at 214.965.8400.

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