Ken Burns

'Ken Burns' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Burns, Ken Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Vietnam

  2016, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Vietnam

  2016, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The Address

  2014, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

  2014, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Address

  2014, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen Jack Johnson

  2013, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Jack Johnson

  2013, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Americana Music Awards

  2013, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen The Central Park Five

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Glue Man

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Lessons from the Dust Bowl with Ken Burns

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guest
• Play in Full Screen Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself

  2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Central Park Five

  2012, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The Central Park Five

  2012, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The Central Park Five

  2012, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Drinks and Conversation

  2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen A Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939

  2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Medal of Honor

  2008, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Budapest to Gettysburg

  2007, role: actor
• Play in Full Screen Wordplay

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

  2004, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

  2004, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Tribeca Film Festival Presents

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

  2003, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

  2003, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen 100 Years of the World Series

  2003, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Independent View

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen The Tim McCarver Show

  2002, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guest
• Play in Full Screen Mark Twain

  2001, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Boston Red Sox: 100 Years of Baseball History

  2001, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Mark Twain

  2001, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

  1999, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony

  1999, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Frank Lloyd Wright

  1998, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Frank Lloyd Wright

  1998, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Frank Lloyd Wright

  1998, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

  1997, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

  1997, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Thomas Jefferson

  1997, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

  1997, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Thomas Jefferson

  1997, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery

  1997, role: writer
• Play in Full Screen The West

  1996, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen The West

  1996, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Gettysburg

  1993, role: actor , character name: Hancock's Aide
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'Gettysburg'

  1993, role: actor , character name: Himself - Filmmaker
• Play in Full Screen The Making of 'Gettysburg'

  1993, role: miscellaneous crew
• Play in Full Screen Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

  1991, role: director
• Play in Full Screen The 17th Annual People's Choice Awards

  1991, role: actor , character name: Himself - Accepting Award for Favourite Mini-Series
• Play in Full Screen Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

  1991, role: producer

Burns, Ken Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Ken Burns On-Set Movie

  2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
• Play in Full Screen Ken Burns On-Set Movie

  2006, role: actor , character name: Narrator
• Play in Full Screen Ken Burns On-Set Movie

  2006, role: director
• Play in Full Screen Octopussy

  1983, role: actor , character name: East German Bodyguard

Burns, Ken Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Documentary New Zealand: Haunted

  2001, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Garage Sale

  1998, role: producer
• Play in Full Screen Firth Ground Force

  1998, role: miscellaneous crew

Famous quotes by Ken Burns:

"The Civil War."

"Oh, I'm just sitting here dying about it,"

"OK, I'm going with Altman,"

"This is what I don't understand, why we're not taught this. I mean, you would be hard pressed to say that there was no machine more important than the car in the last 100 years. Nothing has been more influential in how we live, how we work, what's worked itself into our songs, into our mythology. The idea of a road trip is very much in everyone's life, and this is the first road trip."

"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked, 'Who are we as Americans?"

"impossible to imagine what we would have been like without it."

"[Sometimes, for example, we assume the people hearing us don't know anything. I've read a commentator saying that the new] Jazz ... OK, we got that part, move on."

"Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics."

"Good history is a question of survival. Without any past, we will deprive ourselves of the defining impression of our being."

"I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement."

"The flame is not out, but it is flickering."

"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head."

"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films."

"The genius of our country is improvisation, and jazz reflects that. It's our great contribution to the arts."

"You don't work on something for six years and be blind to the myriad of other approaches."

"History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions."

"I don't use composers. I research music the way I research the photographs or the facts in my scripts."

"Like a layer on a pearl, you can't specifically identify the irritant, the moment of the irritant, but at the end of the day, you know you have a pearl."

"I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style."

"Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say."

Ken Burns