Ken Burns

DirectorProducerActorCrewWriter Jul 29 (age 72) Brooklyn, New York, USA 1962–2025 (63 year career)

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Biography

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" approac…

Known For

Film

Interstellar

Thanks

Film

The Vietnam War

Director

Film

The Civil War

Director

Film

The Central Park Five

Director

Film

The War

Director

Film

Prohibition

Director

Film

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

Director

Film

Baseball

Director

Filmography

Acting (37)

Movies (13)

Ken Burns: One Nation, Many Stories

2024

Spirit of Golf

2023

as Self

The Unmaking of a College

2022

as Self

8.0

Here For A Good Time

2020

as Self

Ken Burns: Here & There

2020

as Himself

Very Ralph

2019

as Self

6.3

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America

2019

as Self - Director and Producer

OETA's On the Record: Ken Burns

2014

as Self

Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit

2013

as Narrator (Voice)

Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself

2012

as Himself

7.7

A Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939

2010

Wordplay

2006

as Self

6.9

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

2000

as Self

6.8

Television (24)

In the Know

2024

as Self

7.2

The U.S. and the Holocaust

2022

as Self

8.3

The Problem with Jon Stewart

as Self

Muhammad Ali

as Self - Panelist

Back on the Record with Bob Costas

2021

as Self

6.0

Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

2018

7.5

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

as Self - Guest

Difficult People

as Ken Burns

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

as Self - Guest

The Mindy Project

as Ken Burns

Finding Your Roots

as Self

MLB: Baseball's Seasons

2009

as Self - Filmmaker

Craft in America

2007

as Himself

The Colbert Report

2005

as Self

6.9

The Tim McCarver Show

The Tony Danza Show

as Self

The Daily Show

as Self

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

as Self - Guest

The Simpsons

as Ken Burns (voice)

This Week

CNN Special Report

as Self

60 Minutes

as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self

Today

as Self

Crew (114)

Movies (46)

Homecoming

2023

Executive Producer

East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story

2020

Executive Producer

7.5

East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story

Producer

The Mayo Clinic

Director

The Mayo Clinic

Executive Producer

The Mayo Clinic

Writer

Walden

Executive Producer

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War

2016

Director

6.9

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War

Executive Producer

Interstellar

Thanks

The Address

Director

Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit

2013

Cinematography

Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit

2013

Director

Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit

2013

Executive Producer

The Central Park Five

2012

Director

7.0

The Central Park Five

2012

Producer

7.0

The Central Park Five

2012

Screenplay

7.0

The Central Park Five

2012

Writer

7.0

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

2010

Director

8.0

Baseball: The Tenth Inning

2010

Writer

8.0

Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal

2010

Director

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

2004

Director

7.1

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Director

Mark Twain

Director

Mark Twain

Director of Photography

7.0

Mark Twain

2002

Producer

7.0