Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His most widely known documentaries are The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Central Park Five (2012), and The Roosevelts (2014). Also widely known is his role as executive producer of The West (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015, directed by Barak Goodman).

Burns's documentaries have been nominated for two Academy Awards and have won Emmy Awards, among other honors.

Early life and education

Burns was born on July 29, 1953 in Brooklyn, New York, 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. According to his website, Ken Burns's brother is the documentary filmmaker Ric Burns. He is a distant relative of poet Robert Burns.

Face the Nation

Face the Nation is an American Sunday morning political interview show broadcast on the CBS television network. Created by Frank Stanton in 1954, it is one of the longest-running news programs in the history of television. The current moderator is John Dickerson, who succeeded long-time moderator Bob Schieffer beginning with the June 7, 2015, broadcast.

Overview

Each Sunday, the program's moderator interviews newsmakers on the latest political and socioeconomic issues, and delivers a short topical commentary at the end of the broadcast. The program generally broadcasts from CBS News' bureau in Washington, D.C. Guests include government leaders, politicians, and international figures in the news. CBS News correspondents and other contributors often engage the guests in a roundtable discussion focusing on current topics. The program is broadcast live at 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time/9:30 a.m. Central Time (immediately following CBS News Sunday Morning), although most CBS affiliates in the Pacific Time Zone air it at 8:30 a.m. local time. Local affiliates are free to air the show at the time of their choosing, usually before noon local time. A delayed audio broadcast of the program is also carried on a handful of radio affiliates through the CBS Radio Network.

Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Vietnamese: Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America (Vietnamese: Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era proxy war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War (1946–54) and was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States, Philippines and other anti-communist allies. The Viet Cong (also known as the National Liberation Front, or NLF), a South Vietnamese communist common front aided by the North, fought a guerrilla war against anti-communist forces in the region. The People's Army of Vietnam, also known as the North Vietnamese Army (NVA), engaged in a more conventional war, at times committing large units to battle.

As the war continued, the part of the Viet Cong in the fighting decreased as the role of the NVA grew. U.S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, and airstrikes. In the course of the war, the U.S. conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam.

American Experience

American Experience is a television program airing on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television stations in the United States. The program airs documentaries, many of which have won awards, about important or interesting events and people in American history. A trademark of the series is its ability to take lesser-known events in history, such as the history of Coney Island or Tupperware, and expand on the topic, showing how that event reflected larger, more important themes in American culture or society.

The series premiered on October 4, 1988, and was originally titled The American Experience, although the article "The" was dropped during a later brand and image update. The show has had a presence on the Internet since 1995, and more than 100 American Experience programs are accompanied by their own websites, which have more background information on the subjects covered as well as teachers' guides. The show is produced primarily by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, though occasionally in the early seasons of the show, it was co-produced by other PBS stations such as WNET in New York.

Burns

Burns may refer to:

Burn, an injury (plural)

People:

Burns (surname), includes list of people and characters

Business:

Burns London, a British guitar maker

Places:

Burns, Colorado, unincorporated community in Eagle County

Burns, Kansas, city in Marion County

Burns, New York, town in Allegany County

Burns, Oregon, city in Harney County

Burns, Tennessee, town in Dickson County

Burns, Wisconsin, town in La Crosse County

Burns (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Burns (community), Wisconsin, an unincorporated community

Burns, Wyoming, town in Laramie County

Buildings:

H.B. Burns Memorial Building, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.

Ships:

USS Burns (DD-171), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1919 to 1930

USS Burns (DD-588), a United States Navy destroyer in commission from 1943 to 1946

USS W. W. Burns (1861), a schooner acquired by the United States Navy in 1861

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

The Art of Theft (2010)

Actors: Jeremy Bonwick (costume designer), Jeremy Bonwick (miscellaneous crew), Jeremy Bonwick (producer), Jeremy Bonwick (editor), Jeremy Bonwick (writer), Jeremy Bonwick (writer), Jeremy Bonwick (director), Julia Faragher (costume designer), Julia Faragher (actor), Julia Faragher (writer), Julia Faragher (miscellaneous crew), Julia Faragher (producer), William Bonwick (actor), William Bonwick (writer), William Bonwick (costume designer),

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Short,

A River Runs Through It (1992)

Actors: Robert Redford (director), Judi M. Durand (miscellaneous crew), Edie McClurg (actress), Mark Isham (composer), Lori A. Balton (miscellaneous crew), Robert Redford (producer), Tom Skerritt (actor), Robert Redford (actor), Craig Sheffer (actor), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (actor), Brenda Blethyn (actress), Brad Pitt (actor), William Hootkins (actor), Miranda Garrison (miscellaneous crew), Wayne Fitzgerald (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: A true story about two boys, Norman and Paul, growing up in Montana. One is rebellious of his father, Rev. Maclean, while the other has his feet on the ground. The one love they both have is fly fishing.

Keywords: 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, affection, alcoholism, americana, autobiographical, bare-butt, based-on-novel, bishop
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The Story of an American Family.

Quotes:

Older Norman: [narrating] My father was very sure about certain matters pertaining to the universe. To him, all good things - trout as well as eternal salvation - came by grace; and grace comes by art; and art does not come easy.

Paul: Oh, I'll never leave Montana, brother.

Older Norman: [narrating] In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.

Norman: Truth is, I'm not sure I want to leave.::Jesse: Montana? Why? It'll always be here.::Norman: Not Montana.::Jesse: Then what? WHAT?::Norman: I'm not sure I want to leave you.

Norman: Dear Jesse, as the moon lingers a moment over the bitterroots, before its descent into the invisible, my mind is filled with song. I find I am humming softly; not to the music, but something else; some place else; a place remembered; a field of grass where no one seemed to have been; except a deer; and the memory is strengthened by the feeling of you, dancing in my awkward arms.

[last lines]::Older Norman: [narrating] Like many fly fishermen in western Montana where the summer days are almost Arctic in length, I often do not start fishing until the cool of the evening. Then in the Arctic half-light of the canyon, all existence fades to a being with my soul and memories and the sounds of the Big Blackfoot River and a four-count rhythm and the hope that a fish will rise. Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.

Older Norman: [narrating] It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.

Rev. Maclean: Each one of here today will at one time in our lives look upon a loved one who is in need and ask the same question: We are willing help, Lord, but what, if anything, is needed? For it is true we can seldom help those closest to us. Either we don't know what part of ourselves to give or, more often than not, the part we have to give is not wanted. And so it those we live with and should know who elude us. But we can still love them - we can love completely without complete understanding.

Jesse: Why is it the people who need the most help... won't take it?

Rev. Maclean: [walking away from the river] The Lord has blessed us all today... It's just that he has been particularly good to me.

Burns, Ken Filmography

Play in Full Screen Vietnam

2016, role: director
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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
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2012, role: writer
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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
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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
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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
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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

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2006, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2006, role: actor , character name: Narrator
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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."

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Ken Burns on Story

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Ken Burns On George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight: INTERVIEW

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Ken Burns interview on American Stories (2002)

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Historian Ken Burns denounces Donald Trump

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Carla Del Ponte announced that she was resigning from the United Nations Syrian war crimes commission of inquiry over obstructions placed in the way of going forward with prosecutions by the UN and Russia, according to The Guardian ... It is unbelievable." “In Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, I was able to pursue investigators, file indictments and arrest warrants [that led] to trials and convictions. But in this case nothing happens ... ....

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Nearby residents Cameron Sutton and Sharyna Armstrong initially "thought it was the TV" before realising that somebody was in the burning house on Seymour Avenue ... "One occupant of the house received minor burns and was treated on site by ambulance," Norris said ... Ad Feedback. More to come....

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A father-of-two burned to death in a 1,300C blaze after teenagers threw a marine distress flare into his silver Audi A4 while he was sleeping, a court heard ... Vilson Meshi (pictured left) was found dead in a silver Audi A4 in Essex (pictured right) on February 27 ... The defendant's mother said ... ....

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Chelsea Thornton, mother of slain Gert Town toddlers, 'not a monster,' lawyer says

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17, 2012, as defense attorney Lionel Lon Burns contends. "The doctors call it 'filicide' when a mother kills her own children because things are going so bad," Burns said in his opening statement ... On Burns' advice, Thornton opted for a bench trial before Pittman rather than having a citizen jury weigh complicated sanity issues or be exposed to the gruesome crime-scene photos of two dead children....

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... a burning vehicle have been honored in Kentucky ... Scharold reached through the broken windshield, grabbed the driver and led him away from the burning vehicle....

The Rude Pundit: Your Stupid Fight About Who's a Better Democrat Is Stupid

Edit Democratic Underground 08 Aug 2017

The Rude Pundit. Proudly lowering the level of political discourse. 8/07/2017 ... In fact, while my house is burning, I don't even care if lack of fire safety on the part of the fire department is what caused the fire ... For the world is burning before our eyes. One by one, the very things that made the nation a relatively stable liberal democracy (I said, "relatively" are being burned like fields of diseased corn ... more... ....

Flooding takes out part of southern Utah highway

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 08 Aug 2017

The conditions were made worse by a 71,000-acre wildfire that burned in the area a month before ... The Brian Head Fire, which began June 17 and burned for nearly a month, had destroyed several of the city’s flood-safety measures, including a bay for drainage and irrigation, Carpenter said ... The wildfire also left behind a ”burn scar” — or an area where ......

Benson spot-on in stroll for Dundalk

Edit Irish Independent 08 Aug 2017

Dundalk had all of the early chances and Jamie McGrath put them ahead after 10 minutes, blasting a low shot past Galway's new goalkeeper, Charlie Burns, after Colm Horgan had done well to clear the ball off the line twice ... Burns made a brilliant save two minutes later before Paul Sinnott made the crucial intervention to deny John Mountney and Sean Hoare had a headed goal disallowed in the 16th minute....

The Latest: Attorney for teen mom says she didn't kill baby

Edit Decatur Daily 08 Aug 2017

The prosecutor alleges the baby was born alive and that Richardson "purposely caused" the baby's death and then burned and buried the infant ... The prosecutor alleges the baby was born alive about 38 to 40 weeks into the pregnancy and that Richardson "purposely caused" the death, then burned and buried the baby's remains ... burned and buried the baby....

Rural-urban divide

Edit Dawn 08 Aug 2017

The nearest burns centre was 150 kilometres away — and it had the capacity to treat only 10 patients, while the number of burns victims was much higher ... In Sehwan, to save the lives of the wounded, visitors to the shrine and other citizens on their own took them to the Taluka Hospital Sehwan — where there was no functional burns ward or trauma centre....

Ken Burns

Early life and education

Face the Nation

Overview

Vietnam War

American Experience

Burns

See also

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 5 Part 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 9 Part 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 6 Part 1

Huey Long | Ken Burns | American Experience

American Experience Thomas Jefferson 1 of 2

Ken Burns previews his latest documentary, "The Vietnam War"

"The Vietnam War" Preview and Conversation with Ken Burns

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 2

Ken Burns Anti-Trump Commencement Speech at Stanford University - June 12th, 2016

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

The Art of Theft (2010)

A River Runs Through It (1992)

Quotes:

Burns, Ken Filmography

Burns, Ken Filmography

Burns, Ken Filmography

Famous quotes by Ken Burns:

"The Civil War."

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

"OK, I'm going with Altman,"

"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

ALBUMS

Lewis & Clark Original Soundtrack Recording

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 5 Part 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 9 Part 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 6 Part 1

Huey Long | Ken Burns | American Experience

American Experience Thomas Jefferson 1 of 2

Ken Burns previews his latest documentary, "The Vietnam War"

"The Vietnam War" Preview and Conversation with Ken Burns

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 2

Ken Burns Anti-Trump Commencement Speech at Stanford University - June 12th, 2016

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 5 Part 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 9 Part 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 6 Part 1

Huey Long | Ken Burns | American Experience

American Experience Thomas Jefferson 1 of 2

Ken Burns previews his latest documentary, "The Vietnam War"

"The Vietnam War" Preview and Conversation with Ken Burns

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 2

Ken Burns Anti-Trump Commencement Speech at Stanford University - June 12th, 2016

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 5 Part 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 6 Part 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 7

Huey Long | Ken Burns | American Experience

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 2

Ken Burns Civil War Episode 4

Ken Burns Civil War Episode 2

Ken Burns Civil War Episode 3

"The Vietnam War" Preview and Conversation with Ken Burns

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 5 Part 1

Ken Burns' Baseball Inning 1