Ken Burns
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Biography
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...Known For
A Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939
The Unmaking of a College
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
Ken Burns: One Nation, Many Stories
OETA's On The Record: Ken Burns
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
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