New on DVD-
Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and co-director Lynn Novick go deep with an extra inning chapter to their earlier work about the sport.
This installment brings the national pastime’s recent history up-to-date, covering the years 1994-2009.
In their noted style of presenting archival photographs with compelling interviews, the filmmakers look at a range of topics during this period where the tumultuous twentieth century is drawing to a close, and a new millennium begins conveying just how baseball continues to reflect the complicated country that developed it.
Everything from the Latin and Asian players impacting our “national pastime” to the suspicions and revelations about performance enhancing drugs, the Red Sox comeback, Cal Ripken as the game’s new Iron Man, strained owner/player relations is covered, but their message is that through it all, baseball endures, a game of infinite possibility and surpassing beauty despite whatever may be threatening the integrity of the game itself.
The two-disc, four hour presentation includes an extensive interview with the co-directors and scores of “outtakes” and “additional scenes”.
