DocumentaryHistory

Burns in the USA

Name: Burns in the USA
Director: Ian Lilley
Genre: Documentary, History
Released: 2017-01-25
Duration: 59 min
Cast: Denis Lawson

January 25, 2017

59m

Robert Burns was well aware of the revolution taking place across the Atlantic as he grew up. The poet was inspired. And America was to be inspired by him. From Abraham Lincoln to Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman to Bob Dylan, some of the most significant figures in American politics and culture have cited Burns as an influence.