# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ric-burns
# Generated: 2026-08-20T19:45:10.114Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ric-burns"
name: "Ric Burns"
slug: "ric-burns"
description: "Ric Burns is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey Ward."
tagline: "American filmmaker"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Brian_Keane_with_Director_Ric_Burns.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1955"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.7
  momentum:             5.607985480943739
  historical:           4.494896
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122849/"
    handle:    "nm0122849"
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Burns"
    title: "Ric Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%B2"
    title: "ریک برنز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Burns"
    title: "Ric Burns"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/645c50ff-dd27-4f0c-892d-046b6bedfab2"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322454"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91394"
    title: "Ric Burns"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations