David Smick was trying to decide on a title for his new documentary about the division taking place in America. “I had a number of clever, abstract titles for the film,” he notes. He says it was executive producer Barry Levinson who told him: “Dave, have you ever heard of the movie ‘Dangerous Marine Animals on the Cape Cod Coast’? No, because they call it ‘Jaws.’ So, I went with ‘America’s Burning,’ because I thought: you can picture that. And I had anticipated things were going to get worse.”
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