Ken Burns of “Benjamin Franklin” on PBS

“I think that’s where these choruses of films help us to understand a little bit better with a little more perspective to understand what’s going on today and know that in many cases some of the things that we wring our hands about, where the sky is falling, Chicken Little, are stuff that we have been through before. And other things seem utterly new, which of course they are, but the same types of human beings are behind them. And it doesn’t diminish the challenges of today.”