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The immediate goal of The Better Angels Society is to provide funding for American history documentary films currently in production for PBS as well as the educational engagement tools that accompany them. In addition, we are supporting a new generation of filmmakers that craft American history documentaries that are compelling and diverse in the model of Ken Burns’s films.

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Friends of the Better Angels will receive invitations to special screenings in your area, and a subscription to our newsletter. Your gift allows us to support the production of high-quality documentaries, educational outreach, and initiatives that emphasize civil discourse.

You’ll also be helping develop a robust educational engagement plan to deliver the films of Ken Burns and their accompanying classroom materials to schools across the country.

Multiple annual contributions might, over the life of longer projects, place a donor in a higher membership tier and permit that donor to enjoy all associated benefits.

The Better Angels Society is a 501(c)(3) organization. Contributions are tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

Better Angels Benefits

  • Single-card, stand-alone underwriting credit at the beginning and end of every episode on every PBS broadcast of your supported film
  • Credit on the educational or home video DVD and every Internet download, to the maximum extent feasible
  • Invitations to special pre-broadcast screenings and behind-the-scenes meetings with filmmakers, historians, and other experts
  • Annual briefing by Ken Burns on the status of projects
  • Complete set of the Ken Burns Film Library
  • Copy of Ken Burns’s Our America: A Photographic History book
  • Personally signed DVD, poster, and, book for the film(s) supported
  • A subscription to our newsletter
  • Share an underwriting credit on the same card with up to two other donors at the beginning and end of every episode, on every PBS broadcast of your supported film
  • Credit on the educational or home video DVD and every Internet download, to the maximum extent feasible
  • Invitations to special pre-broadcast screenings and behind-the-scenes meetings with filmmakers, historians, and other experts
  • Complete set of the Ken Burns Film Library
  • Copy of Ken Burns’s Our America: A Photographic History book
  • Personally signed DVD, poster and, book for the film(s) supported
  • A subscription to our newsletter
  • Share an underwriting credit on the same card with up to four other donors at the beginning and end of every episode, on every PBS broadcast of your supported film
  • Credit on the educational or home video DVD and every Internet download, to the maximum extent feasible
  • Invitations to special pre-broadcast screenings and behind-the-scenes meetings with filmmakers, historians, and other experts
  • Complete set of the Ken Burns Film Library
  • Copy of Ken Burns’s Our America: A Photographic History book
  • Personally signed DVD, poster, and book for the film(s) supported
  • A subscription to our newsletter
  • Share an underwriting credit on the same card with multiple donors at the beginning and end of every episode, on every PBS broadcast of your supported film
  • Credit on the educational or home video DVD and every Internet download, to the maximum extent feasible
  • Complete set of the Ken Burns Film Library
  • Copy of Ken Burns’s Our America: A Photographic History book
  • Personally signed DVD, poster, and book for the film(s) supported
  • A subscription to our newsletter
  • Credit on a GBH American Experience film
  • Subscription to our quarterly newsletter
  • Copy of Ken Burns’s Our America: A Photographic History book
  • Invitations to special screenings in your area
  • Name recognition on our website and on all donor lists
  • Credit on a WNET American Master’s film or a GBH American Experience film (pending a matching contribution)
  • Subscription to our quarterly newsletter
  • Copy of Ken Burns’s Our America: A Photographic History book
  • Invitations to special screenings in your area
  • Name recognition on our website and on all donor lists
  • Subscription to our quarterly newsletter
  • Name recognition on our website and on all donor lists
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Having devoted my life to Public Service, serving with The Better Angels Society enables me to continue working towards the greater good of our nation, our society, and humankind.

— Ron Moultrie, Better Angel

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