(CNN) Adding to Ken Burns' legacy of classy historical fare for PBS, "The U.S. and the Holocaust" is documentary filmmaking with a purpose, a three-night production that directly links undercurrents of American society that influenced the decades featured to lingering strains of White supremacy and anti-Semitism. It's fascinating as history, but sobering as current events. Directed by Burns and frequent collaborators Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein, the six-plus hours meticulously connect US isolation and xenophobia to the barbarism unfolding in Europe, with historians detailing -- to borrow a well-worn phrase -- what Americans knew, and when they knew it regarding...
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