Ken Burns
Directing · Producer · Director · Writer
Born Jul 29, 1953 · Brooklyn, New York, USA
Active 1981–present · Awards: Lincoln Prize, National Humanities Medal, Emmy Award, Grammy Award for Best Traditional Folk Album, Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording, Lady Bird Johnson Environmental Award, Charles Frankel Prize, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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.
Filmography
The Simpsons (1989) - Ken Burns (voice)The Vietnam War (2017) - Producer · Director · Executive ProducerThe Civil War (1990) - Director · Writer · Executive Producer · Director of PhotographyThe War (2007) - Executive Producer · DirectorThe Central Park Five (2012) - Director · Writer · ProducerThe Mindy Project (2012) - Ken BurnsProhibition (2011) - Executive Producer · Producer · Director · CreatorBaseball (1994) - Director · Producer · Executive Producer · Writer · Director of PhotographyThe Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014) - Director · Writer · CreatorThe Dust Bowl (2012) - Director · ProducerThe West (1996) - Executive ProducerMuhammad Ali (2021) - Executive Producer · Director · WriterThe National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) - Producer · DirectorJazz (2001) - Director · ProducerThe U.S. and the Holocaust (2022) - Producer · Director · CreatorCountry Music (2019) - Director · Executive ProducerUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004) - DirectorFrank Lloyd Wright (1998) - Director · ProducerBrooklyn Bridge (1981) - Director · Director of Photography · CinematographyDifficult People (2015) - Ken BurnsBaseball: The Tenth Inning (2010) - Director · Writer · Producer · Director of Photography · Executive Producer · CreatorBenjamin Franklin (2022) - Director · ProducerHemingway (2021) - Director · ProducerHenry David Thoreau (2026) - Producer