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