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Our commonality. he was very attuned to the sort of quiet dignity of the human struggle and i think he wanted to wake other people up to that as well. >> something you say in the film that rings true and is a little frightening u but you say a core truth about war is that you're guaranteed to lose your brothers. so with that, what is it that drove you, tim, your buddies to keep going back? >> well, after tim was killed, i decideded very abruptly, within an hour or to of finding out that he was not going to cover war anymore. war is a lot of things, it's incredibly exciting, it's very dramatic,...

No fun. a new film is chronicling another disaster, the dust bowl, which airs november 18th and 19th. chronicles the human struggle through devastating drought and dust storms that struck the great plains. here's part of it. >> we saw this cloud coming in, black, black dirt. and i'll never forget my grandmother. she said you kids run and get together.he said of the world's coming. >> sure looks like it. joining me now is the filmmaker himself, ken burns. always a pleasure. this is something that's being told that's almost an oral history narrative. talk about the drama here. >> well, this is b...

>> robert, have you been to any of the occupy protests? >> no, i have not. >> then never mind. what do you make of them though? are they fun? >> actually they were quite interesting. they served lates and they had cinnamon buns. right now we are in a very difficult time in this country. i don't know how we pull it altogether. i remember when martin luther king died and i was a young boy and i was watching the funeral on television. there was a rickety cart pulled by two mules and in it was the body of martin luther king who represented the total tee of the human struggle. and there were people...

Risk that i lives to set foot on that tiny island as a way of getting themselves into europe. well, that human struggle produced maybe the deadliest single incident of human smuggling. nobody knows exactly how many hundreds were crammed onto a fishing vessel that rolled over and sunk about 120 miles from lampedusa, but it's feared that there's 700 to 900 people who have died. a commercial ship said the rollover might have been caused when people on deck all ran to one side to try to signal for the passing commercial vessel that they needed help. when all of those people moved to one side and a...

>> if you believe the story, the classmate said it terrified him and it was a scarring incident in his life. to the point of mitt romney, and you obviously have thoughts on mitt romney. i think the most detrimental thing is it reenforces this idea mitt romney fundamentally cannot connect with the human struggle. >> right. yes. that is exactly what the story does. it brings up so many bad things for mitt romney. it's crisis management 101. come out and apologize and admit to it and say i did horrible things as a child. i was in high school. it was a mistake. i've grown so much since then. bully...