
Ken Burns
Burns's widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), and Country Music (2019). He was also executive producer of both The West (1996), and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015). Burns's documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (for 1981's Brooklyn Bridge and 1985's The Statue of Liberty) and have won several Emmy Awards, among other honors.
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Part of Crew

The American Revolution

Benjamin Franklin

Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies

Country Music

Hemingway

Jackie Robinson

Jazz

Leonardo da Vinci

Mark Twain

Muhammad Ali

Prohibition

The American Buffalo

The Civil War

The Gene: An Intimate History

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History

The U.S. and the Holocaust

The Vietnam War

The War

Thomas Jefferson
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