Ken Burns
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Ken Burns (born 1953) is a highly celebrated American documentarian who gradually amassed a considerable reputation and a devoted audience with a series of reassuringly traditional meditations on Americana. Burns' works are treasure troves of archival materials; he skillfully utilizes period music and footage, photographs, periodicals and ordinary people's correspondence, the latter often movingly read by seasoned professional actors in a deliberate attempt to get away from a "Great Man" approach to history. Like most non-fiction filmmakers, Burns wears many hats on his projects, often serving as writer, cinematographer, editor and music director in addition to producing and directing. He achieved his apotheosis with The Civil War (1990), a phenomenally popular 11-hour documentary that won two Emmys and broke all previous ratings records for public TV. The series' companion coffee table book--priced at a hefty $50--sold more than 700,000 copies. The audio version, narrated by Burns, was also a major best-seller. In the final accounting, "The Civil War" became the first documentary to gross over $100 million. Not surprisingly, it has become perennial fund-raising programming for public TV stations around the country. Burns arrived upon the scene with the Oscar-nominated Brooklyn Bridge (1981), a nostalgic chronicle of the construction of the fabled edifice. The film was more widely seen when rebroadcast on PBS the following year. Though Burns has made other nonfiction films for theatrical release, notably an acclaimed and ambiguous portrait of Depression-era Louisiana governor Huey Long (1985), PBS would prove to be his true home. He cast a probing eye on such American subjects as The Statue of Liberty (1985), The Congress (1988) (PBS), painter Thomas Hart Benton (1988) (PBS) and early radio with Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) (PBS). Burns returned to long-form documentary with his most ambitious project to date, an 18-hour history of Baseball (1994), which aired on PBS in the fall of 1994. He approached the national pastime as a template for understanding changes in modern American society. Ironically, this was the only baseball on the air at the time, as the players and owners were embroiled in a bitter strike.
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The American Revolution
Director, Productor, Productor Ejecutivo, Creator
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Productor, Director
Baseball
Director, Productor, Productor Ejecutivo, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía
The Civil War
Director, Escritor, Productor Ejecutivo, Dir. de Fotografía
Jazz
Director, Productor
Prohibition
Productor Ejecutivo, Productor, Director, Creator
The Vietnam War
Productor, Director, Productor Ejecutivo
The War
Productor Ejecutivo, Director
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Director, Escritor, Creator
Country Music
Director, Productor Ejecutivo
The West
Productor Ejecutivo
Henry David Thoreau
Director, Escritor, Productor, Creator
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Productor, Director, Creator
Leonardo da Vinci
Director, Productor Ejecutivo, Creator
Benjamin Franklin
Director, Productor
Muhammad Ali
Productor Ejecutivo, Director, Escritor
Hemingway
Director, Productor
Mark Twain
Productor, Director, Dir. de Fotografía
The American Buffalo
Director, Productor, Productor Ejecutivo
Henry David Thoreau
Productor
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
Director, Escritor, Productor, Dir. de Fotografía, Productor Ejecutivo, Creator
The Mayo Clinic
Director, Escritor, Productor Ejecutivo
Jackie Robinson
Director
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Director
The Gene: An Intimate History
Productor
Brooklyn Bridge
Director, Dir. de Fotografía
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Director, Productor
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Director, Productor
Thomas Jefferson
Director, Creator
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Los Simpson
Ken Burns (voice)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
The Daily Show
Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
The Colbert Report
Self
The View
Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
The Mindy Project
Ken Burns
60 Minutes
Self
Today
Self
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Finding Your Roots
Self
Difficult People
Ken Burns
This Week
El problema con Jon Stewart
Self
CNN Special Report
Self
In the Know
Self
MLB: Baseball's Seasons
Self - Filmmaker
Very Ralph: La Vida Y Obra De Ralph Lauren
Self
Back on the Record with Bob Costas
Self
Craft in America
Himself
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Self
Spirit of Golf
Self
Wordplay
Self
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
Himself
Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit
Narrator (Voice)
The Unmaking of a College
Self
Ken Burns: One Nation, Many Stories