"Experience"", ""Frontline"" and ""Nova"" as well as Ken Burns documentary films such as ""Prohibition"". In total PBS America aired 500 unique hours of content in 2011 and will air 1000 hours in 2012. Children's programming such as ""Sesame Street"" does not air on the channel because the market is ""well served for kids' content"". The channel's slogan is ""Where television matters"". Channel 4's ""Channel 4 Sales"" division is the exclusive advertising sales representative for the network. The general manager of PBS UK said of the pick, ""In the States, PBS is well-loved and trusted for its award-winning programming, so it"
"As a museum retrospective noted, ""His PBS specials [are] strikingly out of step with the visual pyrotechnics and frenetic pacing of most reality-based TV programming, relying instead on techniques that are literally decades old, although Burns reintegrates these constituent elements into a wholly new and highly complex textual arrangement."" In a 2011 interview, Burns stated that he admires and is influenced by filmmaker Errol Morris. Ken Burns Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His widely known documentary series include ""The Civil War"""
"1999; the sixth and seventh episodes in the fall of 2001; and the eighth episode in September 2003. In 2018, the ninth episode will premiere, chronicling New York since the events of September 11, 2001. Burns’s more recently completed projects include ""We Shall Remain"" (2009), which tells the story of the life and hardships of Native Americans in the United States. Another, """" (2010) is the story of U.S. whaling industry and its eventual collapse following World War I. Ric Burns Ric Burns (born 1955) is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries"
"Ken Burns Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films. His widely known documentary series include ""The Civil War"" (1990), ""Baseball"" (1994), ""Jazz"" (2001), ""The War"" (2007), """" (2009), ""Prohibition"" (2011), ""The Roosevelts"" (2014), and ""The Vietnam War"" (2017). He was also executive producer of both ""The West"" (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and ""Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies"" (2015, directed by Barak Goodman). Burns' documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (each for 1981's ""Brooklyn Bridge"" and 1985's ""Statue Of Liberty"") and"
"with Burns and Geoffrey Ward, which aired in September 2017. Novick's next project is ""Ernest Hemingway"", a two-part biography of the writer to be broadcast in 2019. Lynn Novick Lynn Novick is a U.S. director and producer of documentary films widely known for her work with Ken Burns. Novick was born in 1962 and raised in New York City. She is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale University with honors in American Studies. Novick was a research assistant at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History before beginning her film career as a production assistant at WNET, a"
"set on their shelves; but perhaps slightly more surprisingly, serious students of American history may also require the set to supplement their versions of the past century."" The series also received criticisms from reviewers. Critic Jeffrey St. Clair wrote, Ken Burns's interminable documentary, ""Jazz"", starts with a wrong premise and degenerates from there... Burns is a classicist, who is offended by the rawer sounds of the blues, its political dimension and inescapable class dynamic. Instead, Burns fixates on a particular kind of jazz music that appeals to his PBS sensibility: the swing era. It's a genre of jazz that enables"
"and filmmaker Ken Burn to include the Latino experience in their 7-part documentary series, The War, NiLP is also part of a group of national Latino organization that have been meeting with the leadership of PBS to promote greater Latino representation in their programming, staff and governance. Provided an independent and nonpartisan voice analyzing the role of the Latino vote in such media as the New York Times, Washington Post, El Diario-La Prensa, Shimbun Yumiori Newspaper (Japan), CNN, CNN en Español, O Estado de S. Paulo (Brazil), Univision, Telemundo, Radio Bilingue, Politico, Hispanic Link, Spanglish Magazine, El Nuevo Dia (Puerto"
"Kevin Burns Kevin Burns (born June 18, 1955 in Schenectady, New York) is an American television and film producer, director, and screenwriter. His work can be seen on A&E, National Geographic Channel, E!, Animal Planet, AMC, Bravo, WE tv, Travel Channel, Lifetime, and The History Channel. Burns has created and executive-produced more than 800 hours of television programming. Burns grew up in Niskayuna, New York and graduated cum laude from Hamilton College in 1977. In 1981 he received both a master's degree in film from Boston University's College of Communication and a Student Academy Award for his first film, ""I"
"as the narrator for several prominent projects including the documentary film """" and the ""National Geographic""-produced PBS documentary based on Jared Diamond's ""Guns, Germs, and Steel"". He also narrated an episode of the series ""Lost"" in April 2006. In 2008, he narrated ""Torturing Democracy"", a documentary produced by PBS which details the George W. Bush administration's use of ""enhanced interrogation techniques"" in the War on Terror. He also narrated the 12-hour Ken Burns series on the , and 15 episodes for the ""National Geographic Explorer"" series. In 2010 he narrated the documentary ""Solitary Confinement"" on the effect of long-term isolation,"
"in the United States. Following another documentary, """" (1984), Burns was Oscar-nominated again for ""The Statue of Liberty"" (1985). Burns frequently collaborates with author and historian Geoffrey Ward, notably on documentaries such as ""The Civil War"", ""Jazz"", ""Baseball"", and the 10 part TV series ""The Vietnam War"" (aired September 2017). Burns has gone on to a long, successful career directing and producing well-received television documentaries and documentary miniseries on subjects as diverse as arts and letters (""Thomas Hart Benton"", 1988); mass media ("""", 1991); sports (""Baseball"", 1994, updated with ""10th Inning"", 2010); politicians (""Thomas Jefferson"", 1997); music (""Jazz"", 2001); literature"
"Burns appeared in Henry Louis Gates's ""Finding Your Roots"" where he discovered startling news that he is a descendant of a slave owner from the Deep South, in addition to having a lineage which traces back to Colonial Americans of Loyalist allegiance during the American Revolution. Burns is an avid quilt collector. Approximately 1/3 of the quilts from his personal collection were displayed for the first time at The International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln. Uncovered: The Ken Burns Collection included 28 quilts on view through May 13, 2018. Burns is a longtime"
"and Duncan and many of the reenactors of the month-long portage of the five falls of the Missouri River as the completed film segment about the portage was previewed. Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery is a 1997 documentary film about the Lewis and Clark Expedition directed and co-produced by Ken Burns. The film, produced by Burns' Florentine Films for Washington, DC PBS station WETA-TV, first aired on PBS on November 4 and 5, 1997. Part 1 of the film covers the expedition up to the"
"Awards DVD Exclusive Awards International Monitor Awards Student Academy Awards, US Kevin Burns Kevin Burns (born June 18, 1955 in Schenectady, New York) is an American television and film producer, director, and screenwriter. His work can be seen on A&E, National Geographic Channel, E!, Animal Planet, AMC, Bravo, WE tv, Travel Channel, Lifetime, and The History Channel. Burns has created and executive-produced more than 800 hours of television programming. Burns grew up in Niskayuna, New York and graduated cum laude from Hamilton College in 1977. In 1981 he received both a master's degree in film from Boston University's College of"
"collaboration began with Burn playing keyboards and guitar on Lanois' solo debut record ""Acadie"". Burn recorded again with Lanois for Bob Dylan on his acclaimed album ""Oh Mercy"", and on ""Yellow Moon"" by The Neville Brothers and ""Living with the Law"", which he co-produced for Chris Whitley. Burn produced projects with Blue Rodeo, Emmylou Harris (""Red Dirt Girl"", ""Stumble into Grace""), Midnight Oil (""Breathe""), Patty Griffin, Crash Vegas (""Red Earth"") and Patti Smith (""Gone Again""). Burn continues to produce, record and write music. He is making a documentary film tentatively entitled ""Touched"" about a group home for mentally ill people"
"projects. He also provides technical advice and is a commentator on different crime shows. Most notably, Born appeared on the Discovery Channel's ""A Crime to Remember"", regarding a famous murder from the 1950s of a judge in Palm Beach County. In 2018, Born traveled to Afghanistan to do research on a novel and work on a documentary. He spent time at Bagram Air Base and the Fenty Forward Operating Base near the Pakistani border. The documentary, ""Send Me"", detailed the US military's effort to provide medical evacuation to allied soldiers wounded in combat. The documentary aired on PBS in October"
"Times"" described the attack as ""one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s."" Sarah Burns, the daughter of documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, worked for a summer as a paralegal in the office of one of the lawyers handling a lawsuit on behalf of those convicted in the case. The documentary was inspired by her undergraduate thesis, which was on the topic of racism in the media coverage of the event. The documentary provides background, interviews, expert analysis, and details of associated facts related to the case and the conviction of five suspects. It presents analysis to suggest that"
"child. Burns follows Warhol through his meteoric rise in New York's commercial art world during the 1950s. Burns cites 1962, the year Warhol first exhibited his soup can paintings in Los Angeles, as the turning point in Warhol's career. Burns also describes in detail Valerie Solanas' near-fatal shooting of Warhol in 1968. ""Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film"" debuted in early September 2006 with a two-week theatrical run in New York City at Film Forum that charged no admission. The movie was televised in the United States over two nights, September 20–21, 2006, on PBS as part of its ""American Masters"""
"Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson is a documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns based on the nonfiction book of the same name by Geoffrey C. Ward (2004). In Burns' signature style the 220-minute film serves as a biography of Jack Johnson, the first African-American Heavyweight Boxing Champion of the World, as well as a documentary of racism and social inequality during the Jim Crow era against which Jack Johnson lived in defiant opposition. The documentary was first broadcast on PBS in two parts on January 17 and January"
"The Untold Story Behind One of New York City’s Most Infamous Crimes"". The film and the book re-examine the 1989 case of the Central Park Five, and the wrongful convictions of five teenagers for the rape of the Central Park Jogger. In 2016 - Burns produced and directed along with David McMahon and Ken Burns, a two-part, four-hour series titled Jackie Robinson Sarah Burns (writer filmmaker) Sarah Burns is an American author, public speaker, and filmmaker. She is the author of ""The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding"". She is also the co-producer and director for the"
"2001, Ken Burns's documentary ""Jazz"" was premiered on PBS, featuring Wynton Marsalis and other experts reviewing the entire history of American jazz to that time. It received some criticism, however, for its failure to reflect the many distinctive non-American traditions and styles in jazz that had developed, and its limited representation of US developments in the last quarter of the 20th century. The mid-2010s have seen an increasing influence of R&B, hip-hop, and pop music on jazz. In 2015, Kendrick Lamar released his third studio album, ""To Pimp a Butterfly"". The album heavily featured prominent contemporary jazz artists such as"
"and was also a fellow at Harvard's Shorenstein Center for Press, Politics and Public Policy. He holds honorary doctorates from Franklin Pierce College and Drake University. For the last thirty years he has lived in New Hampshire, where he makes his home in the small town of Walpole with his wife, Dianne, and their two children. Dayton Duncan Dayton Duncan (born September 3, 1949) was the writer and co-producer of """" documentary produced by Ken Burns, and has also been involved for many years with other series directed by Burns including ""The Civil War"", ""Horatio's Drive"", ""Baseball"" and ""Jazz"". For"
"film festivals leading up to the October 1 broadcast and streaming premiere on PBS. These include the FREEP Film Festival, Denver Film Society Women + Film Festival, the Boulder International Film Festival, and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. Dark Money (film) Dark Money is a 2018 documentary directed by filmmaker Kimberly Reed about the effects of corporate money and influence in the American political system. The film uses Reed's home state of Montana as a primary case study to advance a broader, national discussion on governance in an era of super PACs and ""Citizens United"". ""Dark Money"" premiered at"
"David McMahon premiered ""The Central Park Five"", a documentary film about the case, at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2012. It was inspired by Sarah Burns' undergraduate thesis on racism in media coverage of the event. Sarah Burns had worked for a summer as a paralegal in the office of one of the lawyers handling a lawsuit on behalf of those convicted of assaulting and raping the jogger. Ken Burns, who has compared the case to that of the Scottsboro Boys, said he hoped the film would push the city to settle the case against it. On September 12,"
"digital master of the film's original camera negatives and was carried out in association with the George Eastman House, where the original 16mm negatives are preserved. It aired on PBS September 7–11, 2015. Blu-ray and DVD editions were released on October 13, 2015. A soundtrack featuring songs from the miniseries, many of which were songs popular during the Civil War, has been released. The Civil War (miniseries) The Civil War is a 1990 American television documentary miniseries created by Ken Burns about the American Civil War. It was first broadcast on PBS on five consecutive nights from September 23 to"
"Texas Rangers Baseball Foundation to present two screenings of the Ken Burns documentary ""Jackie Robinson"", which chronicled the life and contributions of the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. In April 2017, KERA hosted a screening for Burns' multi-part documentary film, ""The Vietnam War"". KERA Passport is a localized version of the PBS Passport video-on-demand service that offers expansive access to video content for KERA member donors who contribute $60 or more annually or at least $5 in ongoing monthly donations to KERA-TV and KERA radio. Introduced in 2016, KERA Passport allows members to save shows available"
"early 2018 the film traveled to several festivals and the rights to the film were purchased by PBS and will be broadcast in fall 2018 as part of the POV series of documentaries. Dark Money is Kimberly Reed's sophomore documentary and explores the influence on dark money in Montana politics and beyond post-""Citizens United."" ""Prodigal Sons"" is an autobiographical account of Kimberly Reed's return home to Montana for her 20th high school reunion as a trans woman. The film evolves into an exploration of family, sibling rivalry, coming out, and reconciling with the past. It debuted at the Telluride Film"
"Ric Burns Ric Burns (born 1955) is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s, beginning with his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series ""The Civil War"" (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns and wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Burns moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan at an early age, and attended Columbia University and Cambridge University, breaking from his graduate work to join his brother on the production of the ""Civil War"" series. Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, he has directed several"
"Archive Creative Director, Elizabeth A. Burns, co-authored various books with Dr. Burns, including ""Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement & the Family, American and European Traditions"", as well as ""Geisha: A Photographic History, 1872-1912"", and the upcoming ""Stiffs, Skulls, and Skeletons"", which will be released in 2014 from Schiffer Publishing. Images from the Burns Archive have been a major source for various documentaries (Ken Burns, the History (U.S. TV channel), PBS American Experience), television series (NBC’s Hannibal (TV series), HBO’s Autopsy (TV series), Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum, Cinemax's The Knick), and feature films (The Silence of the Lambs, Gangs"
"of heroic, yet very human, individuals."" ""BURN"" was released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc on June 18, 2013. Burn (2012 film) BURN: One Year on the Frontlines of the Battle to Save Detroit is a 2012 American documentary film, produced and directed by Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez. It focuses on Engine Company 50 of the Detroit Fire Department, and the city of Detroit as it faces an economic collapse and rising arson and fire rates. The film was executive produced by Denis Leary and Jim Serpico through their production company, Apostle, as well as Steve Tihanyi and Morgan Neville."
"You Are?"" discussing actor Scott Foley's ancestor, Samuel Wardwell of Andover, MA, who was one of the 19 people hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692. On June 10, 2017, Burns appeared with Emerson Baker, Marilynne K. Roach, and others at a symposium at Salem State University, in Salem, Massachusetts, commemorating the 325th anniversary of the events: ""Salem’s Trials, Lessons and Legacy of 1692,"" which was recorded by C-SPAN 3 and aired on July 16, 2017. Margo Burns Margo Burns is a historian (A.B., Mount Holyoke College, 1980, M.A., University of New Hampshire, 1991) specializing in the"
"Films production (London, UK) Distribution: UDI Urban Distribution International (France) World Premiere: BFI London Film Festival 2015 - World premiere The film is rated R13 in New Zealand for offensive language and sexual references. Burn Burn Burn Burn Burn Burn is a 2015 British black comedy film, the directorial debut of Chanya Button. The film is a coming-of-age tale, written by Charlie Covell and inspired by the Jack Kerouac novel ""On the Road"" published in 1957. The fictional plot follows the story of two girls, Seph (Laura Carmichael) and Alex (Chloe Pirrie), taking a road trip to follow the instructions"
"the then-new documentary from Burns, "","" and on October 21, 2002, as part of ""Ken Burns: America's Stories"". Brooklyn Bridge (film) Brooklyn Bridge is a documentary film on the history of the Brooklyn Bridge. It was produced by Ken Burns, Roger Sherman, Buddy Squires, and Amy Stechler in 1981. The film included interviews with personalities such as ""New York Times"" architectural critic Paul Goldberger and writer Arthur Miller plus film clips featuring Bugs Bunny (""Bowery Bugs"") and Frank Sinatra. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was narrated by historian David McCullough who wrote"
"The Last Mountain The Last Mountain is a feature-length documentary film directed by Bill Haney and produced by Haney, Clara Bingham and Eric Grunebaum. The film premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and went into general release on June 3, 2011. The film explores the consequences of mining and burning coal, with a particular focus on the use of a method for coal strip-mining in Appalachia commonly known as mountaintop removal mining. Based in part on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s 2005 book, ""Crimes Against Nature"" and featuring Kennedy and a cast of activists and experts, the film considers the"