The audio version, narrated by Burns, was also a major best-seller. In the final accounting, "The Civil War" became the first documentary to gross over $100 million. Not surprisingly, it has become perennial fund-raising programming for public TV stations around the country. Burns arrived ...
Ken Burns, the ace documentarian known for his extensive deep dives into topics ranging from the Civil War to baseball, is tackling yet another piece of American history withCountry Music, a 16-hour docuseries thattraces the genrefrom its origins as a musical tradition rooted in ballads, hymns...
WarandSozaboy(both 1985); the latter, written inpidginEnglish, satirized corruption in Nigerian society. He reached his largest audience withBasi and Company, a comedic television series that ran for some 150 episodes in the 1980s. He was also a journalist and wrote poetry and children’s ...
For nearly four decades, Burns has been telling the story of America one topic at a time. For the past eight years, he has focused on country music, resulting in — simply and definitively named, like so many of his films —Country Music, a sprawling 16-and-a-half-hour, eight-part, ...
Hemingway, a three-part, six-hour documentary film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, examines the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway.
Baseball - A Film by Ken Burns Description After the national success of his eleven hour epic, The Civil War - the highest-rated miniseries in public-television history - many wondered if Ken Burns could capture the same energy and passion with smaller subjects. His reply, the eighteen hour ...
Run-ins with luminaries include; Ru Paul, Tyra Banks, George Burns, Barry Manilow, Natalie Cole, Pam Anderson, Barry White, Stephanie Powers, Chaka Khan, Whitney Houston, Don Rickles, Dyan Cannon, Ringo Starr then Ringo Starr's mother-in-law, Cyndy Lauper, Sting, Smokey Robinson, Sade, ...
Ken Burns. Producer: The Central Park Five. Celebrated American documentarian who gradually amassed a considerable reputation and a devoted audience with a series of reassuringly traditional meditations on Americana. Burns' works are treasure troves of a
“Nobody would have doneJazz. Nobody would have done 18-and-a-half hours on baseball or 12 hours of still photographs from the Civil War. And, oh, by the way: We end up on those streaming services after the initial broadcast.” (The first four episodes ofCountry Musicwill be ...