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MAKING SENSE OF THE SIXTIES; PBS...
...very momentousness of its subject, however, is the biggest hurdle facing the six-hour PBS series Making Sense of the Sixties. So many pieces of the story have been told so often, in documentaries from Eyes on the Prize to Berkeley in the '60s, that a curtain of boredom threatens to fall even before the stage is set. Much of the material is distressingly familiar: the expected film clips (Martin Luther King, Woodstock, the Democrats at war in Chicago) annotated with the expected cliches ("The age of heroes was over...
...Civil War (PBS). Even if it hadn't inspired a national craze, filmmaker Ken Burns' 11-plus-hour documentary series would rank as one of the medium's towering achievements -- a lucid, comprehensive and poignant narrative of the nation's great calamity...
Eyes on the Prize II (PBS). Henry Hampton's first documentary series about the civil rights movement stopped at 1965, just when things were getting complicated. His sequel continued the story, from the Black Panthers to busing in Boston, and sorted out the issues with the same insight and evenhandedness...
...Minnie together with Katarina Witt and Tai Babilonia, while Richard Mulligan plays a small-town eccentric who meets an extraterrestrial (Beau Bridges) in Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? (NBC, Dec. 23). On the classical side, James Galway and Frederica von Stade headline A Lincoln Center Christmas Gala (PBS, Dec. 19). And, of course, A Charlie Brown Christmas is back again (CBS, Dec. 19). It's 25 years for that treacly tradition: Time for retirement...