Ken burns

“The thing that I’ve learned is that there is no ‘them.’”

Through war, baseball and music, Burns’ monumental TV documentaries have told the story of the USA – a mission he says is even more urgent in the age of ‘alternative facts’

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History buff and superstar of the documentary world Ken Burns has lived a life full of heartbreak, great achievement, and quilts.

If you’ve ever been entranced by the narration of a Ken Burns doc, you have Peter Coyote to thank.

Ernest Hemingway and Hadley Hemingway in Chamby, Switzerland, 1922. Photograph in the Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.

Ken Burns, the legendary documentarian has examined nearly every era of American history. We ranked all of his films, from Baseball to The Vietnam War.

Ken Burns

Although best known for his monumental trilogy The Civil War: A Narrative (1958, 1963, 1974), Shelby Foote’s preferred genre is the novel. Much as his hero, friend, and fellow Mississippian William Faulkner created Yoknapatawpha, Foote imagined Jordan County. Writing five novels in f...

It's more crucial than ever before to maintain high production values when producing documentaries. Here are a few ways to go about it.