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: Americas Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Central Park Five (2012), and The Roosevelts (2014). He was also executive producer of both The West (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015, directed by Barak Goodman).Burns documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (each for 1981s Brooklyn Bridge and 1985s Statute Of Liberty) and have won several Emmy Awards, among other honors.

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