Huey Long

The documentary is about the life of Huey Long. Long was governor of Louisiana and then a United States senator. He took the governor’s chair in 1928. He moved to the Senate in 1932. He was seen as a champion of the poor. He was also called a dictator. The Share Our Wealth clubs he founded had millions of members. He had weekly papers and weekly radio addresses. He built enough power to get his own candidates elected. He was assassinated in 1935. The documentary gives both of those sides. It neither declares him a hero nor condemns him in a word. The historian David McCullough narrates. David McCullough narrates the eighty eight minute documentary, an American production Ken Burns finished in 1985.