Huey Long was the first documentary I ever made that focused on one person's life to animate an entire film. History, as the great essayist Thomas Carlyle once said, is in essence really biography.
An era-appropriate melody plays as photographs move slowly across the screen and a voice reads heartfelt letters written ...
One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera), and the two became close friends, ...
Documentarian and New Hampshire resident Ken Burns is almost ready to release his new series, a six-part, 12 hour show on the ...
Ken Burns' new series, 'Country Music', unpacks ... Still, whenever my team and I start making a film, you always think you know something about the subject. But as you dive in, you realize ...
(JTA) — One of the first people introduced in Ken Burns’ new documentary series about the Holocaust is Otto, a Jewish man seen in the series’ first episode who tries to secure passage to ...
Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns didn’t plan to pursue a film on Leonardo da Vinci, his first non-American subject. But he was drawn to the subject, thanks in part to the master painter’s ...
He also happens to be exactly the kind of posthumously appreciated figure about which Ken Burns has ... which have long defined the Burns family's documentary style, the notebooks served as ...
Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost 40 years ... The Statue of Liberty; Huey Long; Lewis and Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery; Frank Lloyd Wright; Mark Twain ...
One was a filmmaker, the other a scholarly adviser (who sometimes appeared on camera). The two became close friends, working together for more than 40 years.