Ken Burns

Ken Burns and colleagues produce critically acclaimed documentaries for public television.

For more than four decades, Ken Burns and his colleagues at Florentine Films—directors, writers, producers, editors, and cinematographers—have produced some of the most critically acclaimed and most-watched documentaries on public television.

Ken Burns Shows

The U.S. and the Holocaust
Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
Benjamin Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Hemingway
UNUM
The Gene
East Lake Meadows
College Behind Bars
Country Music
The Mayo Clinic
The Vietnam War
Defying The Nazis: The Sharps' War
Jackie Robinson
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
The Roosevelts
The Address
Central Park Five
The Dust Bowl
Prohibition
The Tenth Inning
Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal
The National Parks
The War
The Ken Burns Collection

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The Ken Burns Collection

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