Ken Burns
Director
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电影
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电视节目
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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Baseball
Director, Productor, Productor Ejecutivo, Escritor, Dir. de Fotografía
The Civil War
Director, Escritor, Productor Ejecutivo, Dir. de Fotografía
The American Revolution
Director, Productor, Productor Ejecutivo, Creator
The Vietnam War
Productor, Director, Productor Ejecutivo
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Productor, Director, Creator
The War
Productor Ejecutivo, Director
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
导演、作家、创作者
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Productor, Director
Jazz
导演、制片人
The West
执行制片人
Prohibition
Productor Ejecutivo, Productor, Director, Creator
The American Buffalo
Director, Productor, Productor Ejecutivo
Country Music
Director, Productor Ejecutivo
Hemingway
导演、制片人
达芬奇
Director, Productor Ejecutivo, Creator
Muhammad Ali
Productor Ejecutivo, Director, Escritor
Jackie Robinson
Director
Thomas Jefferson
导演、创作者
Benjamin Franklin
导演、制片人
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
导演、制片人
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Director
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
Director, Escritor, Productor, Dir. de Fotografía, Productor Ejecutivo, Creator
Henry David Thoreau
制片人
Henry David Thoreau
Director, Escritor, Productor, Creator
Mark Twain
Director
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
导演、制片人
The Dust Bowl
导演、制片人
The Mayo Clinic
Director, Escritor, Productor Ejecutivo
The Gene: An Intimate History
制片人
作为演员/演员
Los Simpson
Ken Burns (voice)
吉米·法伦主演的《今夜秀》
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斯蒂芬·科尔伯特深夜秀
自助客人
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
自己
每日秀
自己
大卫·莱特曼深夜秀
自助客人
The View
自己
科尔伯特报告
自己
60 Minutes
自己
柯南·奥布莱恩深夜秀
自助客人
The Mindy Project
Ken Burns
寻找你的根源
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Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
Today
自己
Difficult People
Ken Burns
El problema con Jon Stewart
自己
本星期
CNN Special Report
自己
In the Know
自己
MLB: Baseball's Seasons
Self - Filmmaker
Back on the Record with Bob Costas
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查克·琼斯:极端与介于两者之间 - 动画人生
自己
Very Ralph: La Vida Y Obra De Ralph Lauren
自己
Wordplay
自己
Craft in America
Himself
Spirit of Golf
自己
Ken Burns: Here & There
Himself
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
Himself
Here For A Good Time
自己
The Unmaking of a College
自己