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Battle of Franklin Trust adds film to its array of education tools BY J O H N M C B RY D E
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s Battle of Franklin Trust staff began working on what would become the documentary debut for the nonprofit’s new division BOFT Films, they took something of an opposite approach to a typical creative process. Instead of starting with a broad idea and narrowing its focus, the filmmakers expanded on a singular subject — in this case, the Battle of Franklin — and stretched it to encompass a much wider swath of American history. The result was The Battle of Franklin and The American Experiment, a 74-minute documentary that traces the American experience from when the country’s founders laid out the principles, through the Civil War and Reconstruction, from the Jim Crow Era to Civil Rights, and finally to the present.
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