WatchThe Joy of PaintingonPBS. 6. The Civil War (1990) WETA-TV/PBS Documentaries didn’t often take the nation by storm before 1990, when Ken Burns releasedThe Civil Waron PBS. Across nine episodes, Burns brought the conflict to life with his innovative use of still image photography comb...
WALPOLE, N.H. —What a perfect setting for filmmaker Ken Burns, this pre-Revolutionary War town tucked in a corner of New Hampshire, a place where 19th-Century author Louisa May Alcott summered, and where there are as many American flags on front porches as maple trees and white church s...
Burns has been writing, directing and producing historical documentaries for over 25 years, since his collaboration on the PBS series The Civil War, (1990), which he produced with his brother Ken and co-wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, he has directed ...