Ken Burns: The U.S. and the Holocaust

Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein’s three-part, six-hour documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust, examines how the American people and our leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged our identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of our democracy. Producer: Sarah Botstein, Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Mike Welt. Author: Geoffrey C. Ward. Narrator: Peter Coyote