Burns, Ken (1953—)
Burns, Ken (1953—)
Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns received Oscar nominations for two early works, Brooklyn Bridge (1981) and The Statue of Liberty (1986). But it was his miniseries The Civil War (1990) that brought new viewers to public television and to documentaries and made Burns the most recognizable documentary filmmaker of all time. The style of The Civil War merged period images with the voices of celebrities reading the diaries and letters of Civil War participants. Burns followed The Civil War with Baseball (1994) and Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (1997).
—Christian L. Pyle
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