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Ken Burns' The Civil War.

Many times.

I'm particularly affected by the sequence after the announcement of the Emancipation proclamation

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Big agreement here. I can't even read the text of the Proclamation any more w/o thinking of that scene in the documentary, and the Battle Hymn of the Republic, and getting choked up.

Dammit, there I go.

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That bit in one of the Burns documentaries -- was it The Civil War? -- where Lincoln's writing of "the angels of our better nature" brought me at least close to tears, I know. It was such fantastic writing, about such an important subject, and so heartfelt, I was pretty blown away by it.