Ken Burns
American documentarian and filmmaker (born 1953)
0.39body-of-work score · ranked #1532 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library
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- Born
- July 29, 1953 · Brooklyn
- Nationality
- United States
- Work
- film director, manufacturer, actor, screenwriter
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 10.231 citation
- 20.171 citation
Complete filmography
All 40 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1981Brooklyn Bridge
- 1984The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
- 1985Huey Long
- 1985The Statue of Liberty
- 1988The Congress
- 1988Thomas Hart Benton
- 1989The Civil War. Episode 4, 1863--Simply Murder
- 1992Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
- 1994Troisième manche - The Faith of Fifty Million people (1910-1920)
- 1997Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
- 1997Thomas Jefferson
- 1998Frank Lloyd Wright
- 1999Not for Ourselves Alone
- 2000Jazz
- 2000Seeing, Searching, Being - William Segal
- 2001Mark Twain
- 2003Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
- 2005Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
- 2009The National Parks: America's Best Idea
- 2011Prohibition
- 2012The Central Park Five
- 2012The Dust Bowl
- 2014The Roosevelts
- 2015Cancer: the emperor of all maladies
- 2016Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
- 2016Jackie Robinson
- 2020The Gene
- 2022Benjamin Franklin (film)
- —"The War" A Deadly Calling (Fernsehepisode 2007)
- —"The War" A Necessary War (Fernsehepisode 2007)
- —"The War" A World Without War (Fernsehepisode 2007)
- —"The War" Fubar (Fernsehepisode 2007)
- —"The War" Pride of Our Nation (Fernsehepisode 2007)
- —"The War" The Ghost Front (Fernsehepisode 2007)
- —"The War" When Things Get Tough (Fernsehepisode 2007)
- —L'Amérique face à l'Holocauste - Dans la tourmente (1942-)
- —L'Amérique face à l'Holocauste - L'Espoir de vivre libre (1938-1942)
- —L'Amérique face à l'Holocauste - La Porte de l'Amérique (avant 1938)
- —Leonardo da Vinci
- —The Address