How do you approach a 16-hour Ken Burns documentary about World War II? If you're me, you start off with a gratuitous "Simpsons" reference:
If that's one extreme of World War II education, then "The War" represents another extreme. The film, co-directed by Burns and Lynn Novick, is 16 hours told in seven chapters over two weeks. Some of it is moving, some enlightening, some frustrating, but all of it feels very, very long.
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