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Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs. Among his productions are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009) and Prohibition (2011).
Burns' documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards, and have won Emmy Awards, among other honors.
Ken Burns was born in 1953 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, according to his official website, though some sources give Ann Arbor, Michigan, and some, including The New York Times, give both Brooklyn and Ann Arbor. The son of Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, a biotechnician, and Robert Kyle Burns, at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University, in Manhattan. Ken Burns' brother is the documentary filmmaker Ric Burns.
Burns' academic family moved frequently, and lived in Saint-Véran, France; Newark, Delaware; and Ann Arbor, where his father taught at the University of Michigan. Burns' mother was diagnosed with breast cancer when Burns was 3, and died when he was 11, 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.". 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. Turning down reduced tuition at the University of Michigan, he attended the new Hampshire College, an alternative school in Amherst, Massachusetts with narrative evaluations rather than letter grades and self-directed academic concentrations instead of traditional majors. He worked in a record store to pay his tuition.
Actors: Glenn Garland (editor), Susan T. Parsons (miscellaneous crew), Alex Heffes (composer), Danny Mooney (director), Morris Lee Sullivan (actor), Gordon Michaels (actor), Ricky Wayne (actor), Karyn Wagner (costume designer), Amber Fritz (miscellaneous crew), Bob Weber (miscellaneous crew), Ideene Dehdashti (miscellaneous crew), Patrick Potochick (actor), Lauren Mae Shafer (actress), Apollo Bacala (actor), Nicholas Ritz (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance, War,Actors: Tori Spelling (actress), Octavia Spencer (actress), Cheri Oteri (actress), Carmen Electra (actress), Johnathon Schaech (actor), Robert Wagner (actor), Max Perlich (actor), Jason Bateman (actor), Michael Hitchcock (actor), Christina Applegate (actress), Jamie Kennedy (actor), Jared Leto (actor), Balthazar Getty (actor), Jared Leto (producer), Alistair Abell (producer),
Plot: Sol Goode, a charismatic L.A. twenty-something, has always relied on charm, good looks, and fast talk to glide through life. But his luck may have run out; faced with eviction from his hipster apartment, totaling his car, and the threat of having to find a real job, Sol realizes that maybe the life he's been leading is no longer making him happy. Through this self-examination, he finds that being a womanizing hustler is an unfulfilling life and he will truly be happy with his best friend Chloe, who, unfortunately, knows him all too well. The result is a wickedly funny, heart-felt story as Sol tries to win her over.
Keywords: actor, adoption, african-american, american-football, anal-sex, audition, band, bar, bare-breasts, baseballActors: Callum Keith Rennie (actor), Winston Rekert (actor), John Novak (actor), William Devane (actor), Roman Podhora (actor), Kevin McNulty (actor), Philip Maurice Hayes (actor), Tom Butler (actor), Alf Humphreys (actor), Scott Hylands (actor), Philip Granger (actor), Paul Jarrett (actor), Fulvio Cecere (actor), David Lewis (actor), Nicholas Turturro (actor),
Plot: It's the summer of 1982. Canada World Airways' brand-new Boeing 767 leaves Montreal bound for Edmonton. When the plane reaches its cruise altitude, the impossible happens: the plane runs out of fuel, due to a miscalculation by the ground staff in Montreal. Captain Bob Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal face a potentially deadly disaster in this true story, as the 767, with about 60 souls on board, slowly falls from the sky.
Keywords: aviation, based-on-book, based-on-true-story, boeing-767, disaster, forced-landing, glider, metric-system-usage, prayer, running-out-of-gasActors: Gerald Okamura (actor), Jay Richardson (actor), David Winters (producer), Tricia Ronten (miscellaneous crew), Douglas Harter (miscellaneous crew), Douglas Harter (actor), Billy Frank (actor), Robert Katz (producer), Richard Rabago (actor), Todd Hayen (composer), Peter Yuval (director), Troy Fromin (actor), Peter Yuval (producer), Peter Yuval (writer), Chet Hood (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Horror,Actors: Randall Balsmeyer (miscellaneous crew), Al Cerullo (miscellaneous crew), Ruth Morley (costume designer), Sela Ward (actress), Gabriel Byrne (actor), William Goldstein (composer), Shelley Long (actress), Illeana Douglas (actress), Tony Sirico (actor), John Rothman (actor), Austin Pendleton (actor), Corbin Bernsen (actor), Colin Fox (actor), Tim Sullivan (miscellaneous crew), Lynne Thigpen (actress),
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance,Actors: Jim Makichuk (writer), Jim Makichuk (editor), Jim Makichuk (director), Lionel Shenken (producer), Kenner Ames (actor), Trevor Bain (actor), Ray Paisley (actor), James Musselman (producer), Kirk Jones (editor), Geoff Smither (miscellaneous crew), George T. Cunningham (actor), Charlene Richards (actress), Jennifer Cornish (actress), Dorothy Clifton (actress), Fred Brigham (actor),
Plot: 'Lola' is the entirely self-sufficient, computerized security system for the Sandawn corporation. When Lola is left in charge of the building for one night, she decides the late-working employees and their acquaintances would make an excellent source of energy for her systems to function on. Seeking out the 'heat sources', the remaining people trapped in the building must find a way to shut down Lola before the morning.
Keywords: artificial-intelligence, cctv, co-worker, computer-control, computer-screen, corporation, electricity, employee, evil-computer, human-versus-computerActors: Margo Lion (actress), Georges Franju (director), Roger Blin (actor), Georges Franju (writer), Kurt Großkurth (actor), Raymond Jourdan (actor), Joseph Conrad (writer), Gilbert Natot (editor), Tino Carraro (actor), Jacques Bernard (actor), Jacqueline Parent (actress), Jean Babilée (actor), Luis Masson (actor), Louis Guilloux (writer),
Genres: ,Actors: Griff Barnett (actor), Selmer Jackson (actor), James Millican (actor), Donald Woods (actor), Ruth Robinson (actress), Karen DeWolf (writer), Alfred DeGaetano (editor), W. Donn Hayes (editor), Tommy Ivo (actor), Daisy (actress), James Flood (director), Stewart Stern (miscellaneous crew), Brenda Joyce (actress), Gregory Marshall (actor), Vivian Austin (actress),
Plot: Although Dale and Ken Bullock should be a happily married couple, their marriage is on the verge of a break-up, because Dale refuses to give up her well-paying job in order to devote more time to Ken and their two children Jimmy, age 9, and Tommy, age 6. They sue for divorce and the Judge rules that the children be placed in the custody of their father. Dale realizes what she has lost but she is too proud to say anything to Ken, whom she still loves. Ken, shopping for the perfect stay-at-home wife to take care of his children, falls for the charms of his secretary, Millie Lynch. Not quite.
Keywords: attorney, b-movie, brother, career, child-custody, child-welfare-worker, children, cigarette-smoking, court-order, crueltyActors: Eve Unsell (writer), Ethel Grey Terry (actress), George Archainbaud (director), Lewis Stone (actor), David Torrence (actor), Tom Wilson (actor), Barbara Bedford (actress), Joyce Compton (actress), Shirley Mason (actress), John Patrick (actor), Lewis Dayton (actor), Hugh Allan (actor), Henry Kitchell Webster (writer), Bert Moore (editor),
Plot: Joseph Greer is a wealthy businessman in New York City with all the trappings including a prim-and-proper secretary, Jenny McFarlan, who takes dictation during working hours and, at night, minus her eyeglasses, serves as his nightclub companion and mistress. Then his daughter,Beatrice, whom he has never seen, shows up and moves in with him. Beatrice is a grown-up flapper who loves jazz, pool parties, flaunting prohibition and carrying-on in general. Most of her carrying-on is with the family chauffeur and her father does not approve, says so, and fires the chauffeur. His parental-guidance technique backfires as Beatrice ups and elopes with the chauffeur. Later, the father has some problems with his business associates and loses his business and most of his fixtures and disappears. But Beatrice locates him and there is a happy reunion between father and daughter, especially since daughter has brought along Jenny to cheer him up.
Keywords: 1920s, alcohol, bankruptcy, based-on-novel, bathing-suit, booze, business-rivalry, businessman, car-accident, chauffeurActors: Fred Huntley (director), Charles Dudley (actor), H.M. Horkheimer (producer), E.D. Horkheimer (producer), Henry King (actor), Richard Johnson (actor), Frank Erlanger (actor), Don Bailey (actor), Harry Southard (actor), Katherine Burke (actress), George Theilan (actor),
Genres: Short,You've been cheatin' and tellin' me lies
You've been creepin' while I'm sleepin' at night
You've been chasin' every girl in sight
You've been messin' around, now I'm down,
It's over now
Baby please forgive me
For what I'm about to say
And what I'm about to do
I can't take no more
I know you ain't been true
That's why I'm telling you
You've been cheatin' and tellin' me lies
You've been creepin' while I'm sleepin' at night
You've been chasin' every girl in sight
You've been messin' around, now I'm down,
It's over now
Baby please forgive me
For what I'm about to say
And what I'm about to do
I can't take no more
I know you ain't been true
That's why I'm telling you
All I see is faces I don't know
All I see is places we never go
All I see is laughter in their eyes
Cause you keep telling me, telling me lies
[X2]
You've been cheatin' and tellin' me lies
You've been creepin' while I'm sleepin' at night
You've been chasin' every girl in sight
You've been messin' around, now I'm down,
It's over now
Baby please forgive me
For what I'm about to say
And what I'm about to do
I can't take no more
I know you ain't been true