SAIL of Melbourne, Inc

Ken Burns, an American filmmaker has produced some of the most critically acclaimed and most watched documentaries on television. During this semester we will watch three of his productions: East Lake Meadows – The story of an Atlanta Public housing community raising critical questions about race and poverty; The US and the Holocaust - an examination of America’s response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century; and A conversation with Ken Burns and Isabel Wilkerson. Ms. Wilkerson, recent author of “The Castes – The Origins of our Discontent”, was awarded the National Humanities Medal and was the first African American woman to win a Pulitzer prize in Journalism. These documentaries will be serialized to meet the time requirements of SAIL classes. The course will be facilitated by Joel Sturman.