Ken Burns
Attore, Produttore, Regista, Sceneggiatore
29 luglio 1953 (72 anni)
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. Burns' works are treasure troves of archival materials; he skillfully utilizes period music and footage, photographs, periodicals and ordinary people's correspondence, the latter often movingly read by seasoned professional actors in a deliberate attempt to get away from a "Great Man" approach to history. Like most non-fiction filmmakers, Burns wears many hats on his projects, often serving as writer, cinematographer, editor and music director in addition to producing and directing. He achieved his apotheosis with The Civil War (1990), a phenomenally popular 11-hour documentary that won two Emmys and broke all previous ratings records for public TV. The series' companion coffee table book--priced at a hefty $50--sold more than 700,000 copies. The audio version, narrated by Burns, was also a major best-seller. In the final accounting, "The Civil War" became the first documentary to gross over $100 million. Not surprisingly, it has become perennial fund-raising programming for public TV stations around the country. Burns arrived upon the scene with the Oscar-nominated Brooklyn Bridge (1981), a nostalgic chronicle of the construction of the fabled edifice. The film was more widely seen when rebroadcast on PBS the following year. Though Burns has made other nonfiction films for theatrical release, notably an acclaimed and ambiguous portrait of Depression-era Louisiana governor Huey Long (1985), PBS would prove to be his true home. He cast a probing eye on such American subjects as The Statue of Liberty (1985), The Congress (1988) (PBS), painter Thomas Hart Benton (1988) (PBS) and early radio with Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (1991) (PBS). Burns returned to long-form documentary with his most ambitious project to date, an 18-hour history of Baseball (1994), which aired on PBS in the fall of 1994. He approached the national pastime as a template for understanding changes in modern American society. Ironically, this was the only baseball on the air at the time, as the players and owners were embroiled in a bitter strike.
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Filmografia
| 2016 | Jackie Robinson · as Director |
| 2015 | Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies · as Producer |
| 2014 | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History · as Producer |
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| 2007 | The War · as Director |
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| 2001 | Jazz · as Director |
| 1994 | Baseball · as Director |
| 1993 | Gettysburg · as Hancock's Aide |
| 1989 | The Simpsons · as Ken Burns (voice) |
| 2026 | Henry David Thoreau · as Executive Producer |
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| 2024 | Leonardo da Vinci · as Executive Producer |
| 2023 | Homecoming · as Executive Producer |
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| 2022 | Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness · as Executive Producer |
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| 2021 | Muhammad Ali · as Executive Producer |
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| 2019 | College Behind Bars · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Country Music · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Country Music: Live at the Ryman - A Concert Celebrating the Film by Ken Burns · as Executive Producer |
| 2018 | The Mayo Clinic, Faith, Hope and Science · as Executive Producer |
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| 2016 | Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War · as Executive Producer |
| 2016 | Jackie Robinson · as Executive Producer |
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| 2014 | The Roosevelts: An Intimate History · as Executive Producer |
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| 2011 | Prohibition · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Baseball: The Tenth Inning · as Executive Producer |
| 2010 | Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal · as Executive Producer |
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| 2008 | Medal of Honor · as Executive Producer |
| 2007 | The War · as Executive Producer |
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| 1998 | Frank Lloyd Wright · as Executive Producer |
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| 1997 | Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery · as Executive Producer |
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| 1996 | The West · as Executive Producer |
| 1994 | Baseball · as Executive Producer |
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| 1990 | The Civil War · as Executive Producer |
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| 1987 | Biography · as Executive Producer |
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