Ken Burns
American documentarian and filmmaker · United States · Directors · Born 1953 · age 73
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A life in dates
Henry David ThoreauFilm, Producer2025
The American RevolutionSeries, Director, Creator2023
HomecomingFilm, Producer2021“One would think that making a film is an ; you're building this - it's not, it's .”In their words60 Minutes Season 53, Episode 42, "SolarWinds, Ken Burns, Best Band in the Land" (2021)“Being an American means reckoning with a history fraught with violence and injustice. Ignoring that reality in favor of mythology is not only wrong but also dangerous.”In their words22 November 2021"Opinion: Ken Burns: Being American means reckoning with our violent history." by Ken Burns, in The Washington Post (22 November 2021)2020
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing StoryFilm, Producer2019
Country MusicSeries, Director, ProducerHenry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering AmericaFilm2017Lady Bird Johnson Environmental AwardAward
The Vietnam WarSeries, 2017Director, Producer
WaldenFilm, 2017Producer2016Jefferson LectureAward2014OETA's On the Record: Ken BurnsFilm2012
Finding Your RootsSeries
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as HimselfFilm, 20122010
A Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939Film2005
The Colbert ReportSeries2004
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack JohnsonFilm, Director2002
Mark TwainFilm, Director, Producer1997
The ViewSeries1994
BaseballSeries, Director, Writer1991Charles Frankel PrizeAwardGrammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling RecordingAwardGrammy Award for Best Traditional Folk AlbumAwardLincoln PrizeAward
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made RadioFilm, 1991Director, Producer1990
LindberghFilm, Producer1989
The SimpsonsSeries, Ken Burns (voice)1985
Huey LongFilm, Director, Producer1981
Brooklyn BridgeFilm, Director1962
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny CarsonSeries1953Born29 July 1953Also in Deutsch
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, One would think that making a film is an ; you're building this - it's not, it's .
Being an American means reckoning with a history fraught with violence and injustice. Ignoring that reality in favor of mythology is not only wrong but also dangerous.
I think this is the greatest threat to our republic ever. Not the Depression, not World War II, not the Civil War.
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HTHenry David Thoreau
KSKen Burns: One Nation, Many Stories
SGSpirit of GolfHOHomecoming
TS'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
TCThe Unmaking of a CollegeESEast Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
KTKen Burns: Here & There
HTHere For A Good Time
VRVery Ralph
TCThe Mayo ClinicWAWalden
DWDefying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
TAThe Address
YSYosemite - A Gathering of Spirit
AFAfter the Central Park Five
TFThe Central Park FivePHPlimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
BIBaseball: The Tenth InningAOA Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939
SSSeeing, Searching, Being: William Segal
WOWordplayUJUnforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
HTHoratio's Drive: America's First Road TripMTMark Twain
CAChuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in AnimationEREmpire of the Air: The Men Who Made RadioLILindbergh
TBThomas Hart Benton
TCThe Congress
TLThe Statue of LibertyHLHuey Long
TGThe Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to GodBBBrooklyn Bridge169 credits on file
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TRThe American Revolution
TSThe Problem with Jon StewartCMCountry Music
FHFiring Line with Margaret HooverTWThe Vietnam War
TCThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert
DPDifficult People
TFThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TPThe Mindy ProjectFRFinding Your Roots
PRProhibitionTRThe Colbert ReportTVThe View
TSThe Daily ShowBABaseball
LLLate Show with David Letterman
LBLate Night with Conan O'Brien
TWThe Civil WarTSThe Simpsons
MI60 MinutesTCThe Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
FNFace the Nation
TOTodayAwards
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Kenneth Lauren Burns is an American filmmaker and popular historical documentarian. An undergraduate of Hampshire College, his works typically chronicle American history and culture, and are often produced in association with WETA-TV or the National Endowment for the Humanities, distributed by PBS. Burns has received critical and scholarly acclaim for several of his documentaries, including two Academy Award nominations, two Grammy Awards, three Peabody Awards, and eight Emmy Awards, among other accolades.
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Don HenleyAlso in Henry David Thoreau (2026)
Garrison KeillorAlso in The Congress (1989)
Amy MadiganAlso in Mark Twain (2002)
Julie HarrisAlso in The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984)
Burl IvesAlso in Thomas Hart Benton (1989)
Adam ArkinAlso in Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (2003)Fame.am measures public visibility signals. It does not measure human value, talent, morality, or credibility.