Ken Burns
Directing • AGE 72
Ken Burns (born 1953) is a highly celebrated American documentarian who gradually amassed a considerable reputation and a devoted audience with a series of reassuringly traditional meditations on Amer...
Filmography
Henry David Thoreau
Producer
2026
Henry David Thoreau
Director
2026
The American Revolution
Director
2025
Leonardo da Vinci
Director
2024
Ken Burns: One Nation, Many Stories
2024
In the Know
Self
2024
Homecoming
Executive Producer
2023
The American Buffalo
Director
2023
Spirit of Golf
Self
2023
The U.S. and the Holocaust
Producer
2022
Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness
Executive Producer
2022
Benjamin Franklin
Director
2022
The Unmaking of a College
Self
2022
The Problem with Jon Stewart
Self
2021
Muhammad Ali
Director
2021
Back on the Record with Bob Costas
Self
2021
De la poussière et des hommes
Director
2021
Hemingway
Director
2021
Ken Burns: Here & There
Himself
2020
Here For A Good Time
Self
2020
The Gene: An Intimate History
Producer
2020
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story
Producer
2020
College Behind Bars
Executive Producer
2019
Very Ralph
Self
2019
Country Music
Executive Producer
2019
The Mayo Clinic
Director
2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Walden
Executive Producer
2017
The Vietnam War
Producer
2017
Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
Director
2016
Jackie Robinson
Director
2016
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Self - Guest
2015
Difficult People
Ken Burns
2015
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
Producer
2015
Interstellar
Thanks
2014
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
Director
2014
The Address
Director
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Self - Guest
2014
Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit
Narrator (Voice)
2013
The Dust Bowl
Director
2012
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
Himself
2012
The Mindy Project
Ken Burns
2012
The Central Park Five
Director
2012
Finding Your Roots
Self
2012
Prohibition
Executive Producer
2011
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
Writer
2010
Baseball: The Tenth Inning
Director
2010
Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal
Director
2010
A Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939
2010
The National Parks: America's Best Idea
Producer
2009
MLB: Baseball's Seasons
Self - Filmmaker
2009
The War
Executive Producer
2007
Craft in America
Himself
2007
Wordplay
Self
2006
The Colbert Report
Self
2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Director
2005
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
Director
2004
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
Director
2003
Mark Twain
Director
2002
Mark Twain
Director
2002
Jazz
Director
2001
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Self
2000
Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
Director
1999
Frank Lloyd Wright
Director
1998
Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
Director
1997
The View
Self
1997
Thomas Jefferson
Director
1997
The West
Executive Producer
1996
The Daily Show
Self
1996
Baseball
Director
1994
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Self - Guest
1993
Late Show with David Letterman
Self - Guest
1993
Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
Producer
1991
Lindbergh
Producer
1990
The Civil War
Writer
1990
The Simpsons
Ken Burns (voice)
1989
Thomas Hart Benton
Director
1989
The Congress
Director
1989
The Statue of Liberty
Director
1985
Huey Long
Director
1985
The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
Director
1984
This Week
1981
Brooklyn Bridge
Director
1981
CNN Special Report
Self
1980
60 Minutes
Self
1968
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Self
1962
Today
Self
1952