Filmmaker Ken Burns first entered the American consciousness in 1990 when The Civil War, his monumental documentary of that defining period in our history became the highest rated program in public television history with over 40 million viewers. That record was broken four years later with the premiere of Burns' Baseball, a nine part look at our National Pastime, which drew 45 million viewers. Those numbers will surely be surpassed in January of next year when, over a four week period, Burns...