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'{{other people|Kenneth Burns}} {{Infobox person | name = Ken Burns | image = Kenburns.jpg | caption = Burns in September 2007 | birth_name = Kenneth Lauren Burns | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1953|07|29|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]], U.S. | alma_mater = [[Hampshire College]] | occupation = Filmmaker | years_active = 1981–present | spouse = {{marriage|Amy Stechler Burns|1982|1993}} <br>{{marriage|Julie Deborah Brown|2003}} | children = 4 | website = | residence = [[Walpole, New Hampshire|Walpole]], [[New Hampshire]], U.S. }} '''Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns'''<ref name=filmref /> (born July 29, 1953)<ref name="filmref">{{cite web|url=http://www.filmreference.com/film/76/Ken-Burns.html |title=Ken Burns Biography (1953-) |publisher=Filmreference.com |date= |accessdate=2011-08-19}}</ref> is an American [[filmmaking|filmmaker]], known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in [[documentary film]]s. His most widely known documentaries are ''[[The Civil War (TV series)|The Civil War]]'' (1990), ''[[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]'' (1994), ''[[Jazz (TV series)|Jazz]]'' (2001), ''[[The War (2007 film)|The War]]'' (2007), ''[[The National Parks: America's Best Idea]]'' (2009), ''[[Prohibition (miniseries)|Prohibition]]'' (2011), ''[[The Central Park Five]]'' (2012), and ''[[The Roosevelts (film)|The Roosevelts]]'' (2014). Also widely known is his role as executive producer of ''[[The West (documentary)|The West]]'' (1996, directed by [[Stephen Ives]]), and ''[[Cancer (film)|Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies]]'' (2015, directed by Barak Goodman).<ref name="NYT-20150327">{{cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |title=Review: In ‘Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,’ Battling an Opportunistic Killer |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/arts/television/review-in-cancer-the-emperor-of-all-maladies-battling-an-opportunistic-killer.html |date=March 27, 2015 |work=[[New York Times]] |accessdate=March 31, 2015 }}</ref> Burns' documentaries have been nominated for two [[Academy Award]]s and has won [[Emmy Award]]s, among other honors. ==Early life and education== Burns was born on July 29, 1953 in [[Brooklyn]], [[New York]], the son of Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns,<ref name=worldencyc>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookrags.com/biography/ken-burns/ | title=Ken Burns | publisher=''Encyclopedia of World Biography'' via BookRags.com|date=n.d.}}</ref> a biotechnician,<ref name=kqed>{{cite web|url=http://www.online-communicator.com/kenburns.html | title=Good Eye: The Interview With Ken Burns | first=Joan| last=Walsh| work=San Francisco Focus| publisher= [[KQED (TV)|KQED]] via Online-Communicator.com | date=n.d.|archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/61tMDKQDQ |archivedate=September 22, 2011|deadurl=no}}</ref> and Robert Kyle Burns, at the time a graduate student in [[cultural anthropology]] at [[Columbia University]] in [[Manhattan]].<ref name=worldencyc /> According to his website,<ref name=official>{{cite web|url=http://www.florentinefilms.com/ffpages/KB-frameset.html | title=Ken Burns | publisher=biography at FlorentineFilms.com|date= n.d.}}</ref> Ken Burns's brother is the documentary filmmaker [[Ric Burns]]. He is a distant relative of poet [[Robert Burns]].<ref>Stated on ''[[Finding Your Roots]]'', PBS, October 7, 2014</ref><ref name="ancestor">{{cite news |url=http://www.studio360.org/story/nerding-out-with-ken-burns-and-rebranding-marijuana/ |title=Studio360: Nerding Out with Ken Burns, 13:50 |archivedate=April 29, 2014}}</ref> Burns's academic family moved frequently. Among places they called home were [[Saint-Véran]], [[France]]; [[Newark, Delaware|Newark]], [[Delaware]]; and Ann Arbor, where his father taught at the [[University of Michigan]].<ref name=kqed /> Burns's mother was found to have [[breast cancer]] when Burns was 3 and died when he was 11,<ref name=kqed /> a circumstance that he said helped shape his career; he credited his father-in-law, a psychologist, with a signal insight: "He told me that my whole work was an attempt to make people long gone come back alive."<ref name=kqed /> Well-read as a child, he absorbed the family encyclopedia, preferring history to fiction. Upon receiving an [[8 mm film]] movie camera for his 17th birthday, he shot a documentary about an Ann Arbor factory. He graduated from [[Pioneer High School (Ann Arbor, Michigan)|Pioneer High School]] in Ann Arbor in 1971.<ref>Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation, [http://annarboralumni.org/?sitePage=custom&pageURL=school_files/annarboralumni/pages/notable_alumni.html Ann Arbor Public Schools Alumni] (accessed 29 October 2013).</ref> Turning down reduced tuition at the University of Michigan, he attended [[Hampshire College]], an alternative school in [[Amherst, Massachusetts|Amherst]], [[Massachusetts]], where students are graded through narrative evaluations rather than letter grades and where students create self-directed academic concentrations instead of choosing a traditional major.<ref name=kqed /> He worked in a record store to pay his tuition.<ref name=kqed /><!--uncited claim: graduated from [[Ann Arbor Pioneer High School|Pioneer High School]] in [[Ann Arbor, Michigan]] in 1971.--> Studying under photographers [[Jerome Liebling]] and [[Elaine Mayes]] and others, Burns earned his [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in film studies and design<ref name=mobc>{{cite web|url=http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=burnsken |title=Burns, Ken: U.S. Documentary Film Maker| publisher=[[The Museum of Broadcast Communications]]| date= n.d.|first=Gary|last= Edgerton| archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20110629014442/http://www.museum.tv/eotvsection.php?entrycode=burnsken | archivedate= June 29, 2011|deadurl=no}}</ref> in 1975. ==Career== Upon graduation, he, Mayes and college classmate [[Roger Sherman (filmmaker)|Roger Sherman]] founded Florentine Films in [[Walpole, New Hampshire|Walpole]], [[New Hampshire]]. The company's name was borrowed from Mayes' hometown of [[Florence, Massachusetts]]. Another Hampshire College graduate [[Buddy Squires]] subsequently succeeded Mayes one year later in 1976.<ref>[http://www.documentary.org/magazine/florentine-four-ken-burns-and-partners-look-back-30-years-documentary-production Romeo, Jim. "The Florentine Four: Ken Burns and Partners Look Back on 30 Years of Documentary Production," ''Documentary'' (International Documentary Association magazine), November/December 2006.]</ref> Burns worked as a [[cinematographer]] for the [[BBC]], Italian television, and others, and in 1977, having completed some documentary [[short films]], he began work on adapting [[David McCullough]]'s book ''The Great Bridge'', about the construction of the [[Brooklyn Bridge]].<ref name=mobc /> Developing a signature style of documentary filmmaking in which he "adopted the technique of cutting rapidly from one still picture to another in a fluid, linear fashion [and] then pepped up the visuals with 'first hand' narration gleaned from contemporary writings and recited by top stage and screen actors",<ref name=allmediaguide /> he made the feature documentary ''[[Brooklyn Bridge (film)|Brooklyn Bridge]]'' (1981), which earned an [[Academy Award]] nomination for Best Documentary and ran on [[PBS]] in the United States. Following another documentary, ''[[The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God]]'' (1984), Burns was Oscar-nominated again for ''[[The Statue of Liberty (film)|The Statue of Liberty]]'' (1985). Burns went on to a long, successful career directing and producing well-received television documentaries and documentary [[miniseries]] on subjects as diverse as arts and letters (''[[Thomas Hart Benton (painter)|Thomas Hart Benton]]'', 1988), mass media (''[[Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio]]'', 1991), sports (''[[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]'', 1994, updated with ''[[Baseball (TV series)#10th Inning|10th Inning]]'', 2010), politicians (''[[Thomas Jefferson (documentary)|Thomas Jefferson]]'', 1997), music (''[[Jazz (TV series)|Jazz]]'', 2001), literature (''[[Mark Twain (documentary)|Mark Twain]]'', 2001), war (the 15-hour [[World War II]] documentary ''[[The War (documentary)|The War]]'', 2007), environmentalism (''[[The National Parks: America's Best Idea|The National Parks]]'', 2009) and the [[American Civil War|Civil War]] (the 11-hour ''[[The Civil War (TV series)|The Civil War]]'', 1990, which [[All Media Guide]] says "many consider his 'chef d'oeuvre'").<ref name=allmediaguide>{{cite news | url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/83608/Ken-Burns/biography | title=Ken Burns biography | first=Hal |last=Erickson | publisher=[[All Media Guide]] / Baseline / ''[[The New York Times]]'' | accessdate=September 22, 2011}}. This single source gives two birthplaces. Under the header list, it reads "Birthplace: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA." In the prose biography, it reads "Brooklyn-born Ken Burns..."</ref> ==Personal life== In 1982, Burns married Amy Stechler, with whom he had two daughters, Sarah and Lily;<ref name=mobc /> the marriage ended in divorce. As of 2011, Burns resides in [[Walpole, New Hampshire|Walpole]], [[New Hampshire]], with his second wife, Julie Deborah Brown,<ref name="New Wife" /> whom he married on October 18, 2003.<ref name="New Wife">{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/style/weddings-celebrations-julie-brown-ken-burns.html |title=Weddings/Celebrations; Julie Brown, Ken Burns |newspaper=[[The New York Times]]| date=October 19, 2003|archiveurl= http://liveweb.archive.org/http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/style/weddings-celebrations-julie-brown-ken-burns.html| archivedate=October 5, 2011|deadurl=no}}</ref> They have two daughters, Olivia and Willa Burns. In 2014 Burns appeared in [[Henry Louis Gates, Jr.|Henry Louis Gates]]'s ''[[Finding Your Roots]]'' where he found out the startling news of being a descendant of a [[slave owner]] from the [[Deep South]], and also from relatives of [[Loyalists]] allegiances. Loyalist North Americans were loyal to Great Britain and fled to Canada after the [[Revolutionary War]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/television/2014/09/22/gates-pbs-genealogy-vance-stephen-king/16073071/ |title=Henry Louis Gates probes celebs' origins on PBS |first=Susan |last=Whitall |date=September 23, 2014 |accessdate=August 26, 2015 |publisher=The Detroit News}}</ref> ===Politics=== Burns is a longtime supporter of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], with almost $40,000 in political donations.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Ken_Burns.php |title=Ken Burns's Federal Campaign Contribution Report |publisher=Newsmeat |date= |accessdate=2011-08-19}}</ref> In 2008, the [[Democratic National Committee]] chose Burns to produce the introductory video for Senator [[Ted Kennedy|Edward Kennedy]]'s August 2008 speech to the [[Democratic National Convention]], a video described by ''[[Politico]]'' as a "Burns-crafted tribute casting him [Kennedy] as the modern [[Odysseus|Ulysses]] bringing his party home to port."<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/aug/24/filmmaker-ken-burns-behind-documentary-tribute-sen/ | title=Filmmaker Ken Burns behind documentary tribute to Sen. Ted Kennedy|date=August 24, 2008 | author=[[M.E. Sprengelmeyer]] | publisher=Rocky Mountain News | accessdate=2009-08-26|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/67O6MQGEp | archivedate=May 3, 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Rogers|first=David|title=Ailing Kennedy: 'The dream lives on'|url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0808/12826.html|accessdate=19 June 2011|newspaper=Politico|date=26 August 2008}}</ref> In August 2009, Kennedy died, and Burns produced a short eulogy video at his funeral. In endorsing [[Barack Obama]] for the U.S. presidency in December 2007, Burns compared Obama to [[Abraham Lincoln]].<ref>{{cite news|last=MacGillis|first=Alec|title=Ken Burns Compares Obama to Lincoln|url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2007/12/18/ken_burns_compares_obama_to_li.html|accessdate=19 June 2011|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=18 December 2007}}</ref> He said he had planned to be a regular contributor to ''[[Countdown with Keith Olbermann]]'' on [[Current TV]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Guthrie|first=Marisa|title=Michael Moore to Be a Contributor on Keith Olbermann's New Show|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-moore-be-a-contributor-187483|accessdate=19 June 2011|work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]]|date=11 May 2011}}</ref> ==Awards and honors== [[File:Ken Burns 2014.jpg|thumb|Burns with the [[Peabody Award]] for ''[[The Central Park Five]]'' in 2014]] * 1982 nomination, [[Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature#1980s|Academy Award for Documentary Feature]]: ''[[Brooklyn Bridge (film)|Brooklyn Bridge]]'' (1981); * 1986 nomination, Academy Award for Documentary Feature: ''[[The Statue of Liberty (film)|The Statue of Liberty]]'' (1985); * 1995 [[Emmy Award]] for Outstanding Informational Series: ''[[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]'' (1994); * 2010 Emmy Award for Outstanding Non-fiction Series: ''[[The National Parks: America's Best Idea]]'' (2009). Burns is the recipient of more than 20 honorary degrees.{{Citation needed|date=September 2011}} ''The Civil War'' has received more than 40 major film and television awards,{{citation needed|date=September 2011}} including two [[Emmy Award]]s, two [[Grammy Award]]s, the Producer of the Year Award from the [[Producers Guild of America]], a [[People's Choice Award]], a [[Peabody Award]], a [[duPont-Columbia Award]], a [[D. W. Griffith Award]], and the $50,000 [[Lincoln Prize]]. As of 2010, there is a Ken Burns Wing at the Jerome Liebling Center for Film, Photography and Video at Hampshire College.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://kuhnriddle.com/portfolio/educational/liebling-center/| publisher=Kuhn Riddle Architects | title=Hampshire College - The Ken Burns Wing| year=2010| archiveurl= http://www.webcitation.org/61tV7XiJ1 | archivedate= September 22, 2011|deadurl=no}}</ref> In 2004, Burns received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, an award given out annually by [[Jefferson Awards for Public Service|Jefferson Awards]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jeffersonawards.org/pastwinners/national |title=National Winners &#124; public service awards |publisher=Jefferson Awards.org |date= |accessdate=2013-12-25}}</ref> In 2012, Burns received the Washington University International Humanities Medal. <ref>https://magazine.wustl.edu/2013/February/Pages/Ken-Burns-Wash-U-Humanities-Medal.aspx</ref> The medal, awarded biennially and accompanied by a cash prize of $25,000, is given to honor a person whose humanistic endeavors in scholarship, journalism, literature, or the arts have made a difference in the world. Past winners include Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk in 2006, journalist Michael Pollan in 2008, and novelist and nonfiction writer Francine Prose in 2010.<ref>https://pages.wustl.edu/figure/humanities-medal-jan-2014</ref> In 2013, Burns received the [[John Steinbeck Award]], an award presented annually by Steinbeck's eldest son, Thomas, in collaboration with the John Steinbeck Family Foundation, [[San Jose State University]], and The [[National Steinbeck Center]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.sjsu.edu/today/2013/ken-burns-to-receive-steinbeck-award/ |title=Ken Burns to Receive Steinbeck Award |publisher=SJSU News |date= |accessdate=2013-12-25}}</ref> Burns was the [[Grand Marshal]] for the 2016 [[Pasadena Tournament of Roses]]' [[Rose Parade]] on [[New Year's Day]] in [[Pasadena, California]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Cormaci |first=Carol |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ken-burns-grand-marshal-20151110-story.html |title=Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns named 2016 Rose Parade grand marshal |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=November 10, 2015 |accessdate=2016-03-12 }}</ref> The [[National Endowment for the Humanities]] selected Burns to deliver the 2016 [[Jefferson Lecture]], the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the [[humanities]], on the topic of race in America.<ref>{{cite news |last=Manly |first=Lorne |url=http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/01/18/ken-burns-to-discuss-race-in-jefferson-lecture/?_r=0 |title=Ken Burns to Discuss Race in Jefferson Lecture |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=January 18, 2016 |accessdate=2016-03-12 }}</ref> ==Style== Burns frequently incorporates simple musical leitmotifs or melodies. For example, ''The Civil War'' features a distinctive violin melody throughout, "[[Ashokan Farewell]]", which was performed for the film by its composer, fiddler [[Jay Ungar]]. One critic noted, "One of the most memorable things about ''The Civil War'' was its haunting, repeated violin melody, whose thin, yearning notes seemed somehow to sum up all the pathos of that great struggle."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.salon.com/weekly/west2960909.html |title=Shame and Glory: ''The West'' holds a mirror before the double face of a nation |first=Gary |last=Kamiya |publisher=[[Salon.com]] |date= n.d.}}</ref> Burns often gives life to still photographs by slowly zooming in on subjects of interest and panning from one subject to another. For example, in a photograph of a baseball team, he might slowly pan across the faces of the players and come to rest on the player who is the subject of the narrator. This technique, possible in many professional and home software applications, is termed "The [[Ken Burns effect]]" in [[Apple Inc.|Apple]]'s [[iPhoto]], [[iMovie]] and [[Final Cut Pro X]] software applications. Burns stated in a 2009 interview that he initially declined to have his name associated with the software because of his stance to refuse commercial endorsements. However, Apple chief Steve Jobs negotiated to give Burns Apple equipment, which Burns donated to nonprofit organizations.<ref name=Nelson>{{cite web|last=Allen|first=Austin|title=Big Think Interview with Ken Burns|url=http://bigthink.com/videos/big-think-interview-with-ken-burns|publisher=Big Think|accessdate=April 23, 2014}}</ref> As a museum retrospective noted, "His [[PBS]] specials [are] strikingly out of step with the visual pyrotechnics and frenetic pacing of most reality-based TV programming, relying instead on techniques that are literally decades old, although Burns reintegrates these constituent elements into a wholly new and highly complex textual arrangement."<ref name=mobc /> In a 2011 interview, Burns stated that he admires and is influenced by filmmaker [[Errol Morris]].<ref>{{cite journal|url=http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/03/ken-burns-on-pbs-funding-being|title=Ken Burns on PBS Funding, Being a 'Yellow-Dog Democrat,' & Missing Walter Cronkite|first=Meredith |last=Bragg|first2= Nick |last2=Gillespie | date=October 3, 2011|work=[[Reason (magazine)|Reason]]|archiveurl=http://liveweb.archive.org/http://reason.com/blog/2011/10/03/ken-burns-on-pbs-funding-being| archivedate=May 3, 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref> ==Filmography== * ''[[Brooklyn Bridge (film)|Brooklyn Bridge]]'' (1981)<ref group="lower-alpha" name="name">Listed as 'Kenneth Lauren Burns'.</ref> * ''[[The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God]]'' (1984)<ref name="name" group="lower-alpha" /> * ''[[The Statue of Liberty (film)|The Statue of Liberty]]'' (1985)<ref name="name" group="lower-alpha" /> * ''[[Huey Long (film)|Huey Long]]'' (1985)<ref name="name" group="lower-alpha" /> * ''[[The Congress (1988 film)|The Congress]]'' (1988)<ref name="name" group="lower-alpha" /> * ''[[Thomas Hart Benton (film)|Thomas Hart Benton]]'' (1988)<ref name="name" group="lower-alpha" /> * ''[[The Civil War (TV series)|The Civil War]]'' (1990)<ref name="name" group="lower-alpha" /> * ''[[Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio]]'' (1991) * ''[[Baseball (TV series)|Baseball]]'' (1994), updated with ''[[Baseball (TV series)#The Tenth Inning|The Tenth Inning]]'' (2010) * ''[[The West (documentary)|The West]]'' (1996) * ''[[Thomas Jefferson (film)|Thomas Jefferson]]'' (1997) * ''[[Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery]]'' (1997) * ''[[Frank Lloyd Wright (film)|Frank Lloyd Wright]]'', with Lynn Novick (1998) * ''[[Not For Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony]]'' (1999) * ''[[Jazz (TV series)|Jazz]]'' (2001) * ''[[Mark Twain (documentary)|Mark Twain]]'' (2001) * ''[[Horatio's Drive|Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip]]'' (2003) * ''[[Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson]]'' (2005) * ''[[The War (2007 film)|The War]]'' (2007) * ''[[The National Parks: America's Best Idea]]'' (2009) * ''[[Prohibition (miniseries)|Prohibition]]'', with Lynn Novick (2011)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/ |title=Prohibition|publisher=[[PBS|PBS.org]] | date=2011|archiveurl=http://www.webcitation.org/67O67jITr|archivedate=May 3, 2012|deadurl=no}}</ref> * ''[[The Dust Bowl (film)|The Dust Bowl]]'' (2012)<ref name="OETA">{{cite web|url=http://www.oeta.tv/engage/472-ken-burns-seeking-dustbowl-stories.html |title=Ken Burns Seeking Dustbowl Stories |publisher=OETA |date= |accessdate=2011-08-19}}</ref> * ''[[The Central Park Five]]'' (2012)<ref name=florentine>{{cite web|url=http://www.florentinefilms.com/ffpages/FFIntro-frameset.html |title=Introduction|publisher=FlorentineFilms.com|date=n.d.}}</ref> * ''[[Yosemite: A Gathering of Spirit]]'' (2013)<!----(December 8, 2013) with [[Dayton Duncan]]---><ref>[http://yosemite-conservancy.mybigcommerce.com/yosemite-a-gathering-of-spirit/ The World Premiere of Yosemite: A Gathering of Spirit], [http://www.yosemiteconservancy.org/ Yosemite Conservancy] Retrieved 2013-10-21.</ref> * ''[[The Address (film)|The Address]]'' (2014) * ''[[The Roosevelts (film)|The Roosevelts: An Intimate History]]'' (2014)<ref name=florentine /><ref name="PBS-20140910">{{cite news |last=Moore |first=Frazier |title=PBS' 'The Roosevelts' portrays an epic threesome |url=http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140910/us--tv-roosevelts-d4b60e65ce.html |date=September 10, 2014 |work=[[AP News]] |accessdate=September 10, 2014}}</ref> * ''[[Jackie Robinson (film)|Jackie Robinson]]'' (2016)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/filmmaker-ken-burns-discusses-upcoming-projects-wash-u-commencement-speech-more |title=Filmmaker Ken Burns discusses upcoming projects, Wash U commencement speech, more |last=Cladwell |first=Evita |date=May 14, 2014 |publisher=St. Louis Public Radio |accessdate=August 26, 2015}}</ref> {{Reflist|group=lower-alpha}} ;Future releases * ''[[Vietnam (film)|Vietnam]]'' (2017)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://kenburns.com/films/vietnam/ |title= Vietnam |publisher= Ken Burns media |date= August 26, 2015}}</ref> * ''[[Country Music (film)|Country Music]]'' (2018)<ref name=better>{{cite web |title=Upcoming Films |url=http://thebetterangelssociety.org/upcoming-films.htm |publisher=The Better Angels Society |accessdate=June 16, 2015}}</ref> * ''[[Ernest Hemingway (film)|Ernest Hemingway]]'' (2019)<ref name=better /> * ''[[Stand-up Comedy (film)|Stand-up Comedy]]'' (TBA)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ktrs.com/filmmaker-ken-burns-joined-the-carney-show-to-chat-about-the-only-documentaries-you-actually-want-to-see/ |title=Filmmaker Ken Burns joined The Carney Show to chat about the only documentaries you actually want to see |first= Josh |last=Gilbert |date= May 18, 2015 |accessdate= August 26, 2015 |publisher=KTRS}}</ref> ;Ken Burns - Executive producer * ''[[The West (documentary)|The West]]'' (1996) (directed by Stephen Ives) * ''[[Cancer (film)|Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies]]'' (2015)<ref name="NYT-20150327">{{cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |title=Review: In ‘Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies,’ Battling an Opportunistic Killer |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/28/arts/television/review-in-cancer-the-emperor-of-all-maladies-battling-an-opportunistic-killer.html |date=March 27, 2015 |work=[[New York Times]] |accessdate=March 31, 2015 }}</ref> (directed by Barak Goodman) ;Short films * ''[[William Segal (Biography)]]'' (1992) * ''[[Vezelay (film)|Vezelay]]'' (1996) * ''[[In the Marketplace]]'' (2000) ;Film roles * ''[[Gettysburg (1993 film)|Gettysburg]]'' (1993)—Hancock's staff officer ==References== {{Reflist|30em}} ==External links== {{commons|Ken Burns}} * [http://www.florentinefilms.com Florentine Films]—Ken Burns's production company * {{AllMovie name|83608}} * {{IMDb name|122741}} * {{twitter|KenBurns}} * [http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/ Ken Burns] on [[Public Broadcasting Service|PBS]] * [http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/documentarybib.html#burns Ken Burns bibliography] * [http://lccn.loc.gov/n91020856 Ken Burns] at [[Library of Congress]] Authorities — with 54 catalog records === Interviews === * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yLVOofyyNU/ Ken Burns interviewed on ''Conversations from Penn State''] * [http://blueridgecountry.com/blogs/ridgelines/ken-burns-civil-war-national-parks.html/ Ken Burns: The Interview with ''Blue Ridge County Magazine''] * {{cite web|url=http://ra.okstate.edu/osu_tulsa/WritingOutLoud/KenBurns/video.htm |title=Ken Burns|publisher= WriteTV.org, The [[Oklahoma]] Center for Poets and Writers, [[Oklahoma State University–Tulsa]]| date=n.d.}} * {{emmytvlegends name|ken-burns}} {{Ken Burns|state=expanded}} {{Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album 1990s}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Burns, Ken}} [[Category:1953 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American documentary film directors]] [[Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] [[Category:Grammy Award winners]] [[Category:National Humanities Medal recipients]] [[Category:Winners of the Lincoln Prize]] [[Category:Hampshire College alumni]] [[Category:People from Ann Arbor, Michigan]] [[Category:People from Brooklyn]] [[Category:People from New Castle County, Delaware]] [[Category:People from Cheshire County, New Hampshire]] [[Category:New Hampshire Democrats]] [[Category:Emmy Award winners]] [[Category:Film directors from New York City]]'