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Ken Burns

演员, 制片人, 导演, 编剧

1953年7月29日 (72 years)
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.

知名作品

  • 越南战争
    越南战争13 episodes
  • 美国内战
    美国内战24 episodes
  • 棒球全史
    棒球全史12 episodes
  • 战争
    战争7 episodes
  • 中央公园五罪犯
    中央公园五罪犯2012
  • 禁酒令
    禁酒令5 episodes
  • Jazz
    Jazz23 episodes
  • 罗斯福家族百年史
    罗斯福家族百年史7 episodes
  • 北美国家公园全纪录
    北美国家公园全纪录22 episodes
  • 罪无可赦：拳王杰克·强生沉浮录
    罪无可赦：拳王杰克·强生沉浮录2004
  • 美国革命
    美国革命7 episodes
  • The Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl2 episodes
  • 西部
    西部9 episodes
  • Country Music
    Country Music47 episodes
  • 穆罕默德·阿里
    穆罕默德·阿里8 episodes
  • Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
    Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery1997
  • 本杰明·富兰克林
    本杰明·富兰克林1 seasons
  • Brooklyn Bridge
    Brooklyn Bridge1981
  • 美国与犹太人大屠杀
    美国与犹太人大屠杀5 episodes
  • Mark Twain
    Mark Twain2002

影視作品

2016
Jackie Robinson · as Director
2015
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies · as Producer
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History · as Producer
2014
MasterClass
2007
The War · as Director
2005
This Week
2001
Jazz · as Director
1994
Baseball · as Director
1993
Gettysburg · as Hancock's Aide
1989
The Simpsons · as Ken Burns (voice)

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