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American documentarian and filmmaker (born 1953)

For the English football referee, see Ken Burns (referee). For other people named Kenneth Burns, see Kenneth Burns (disambiguation).

Kenneth Lauren Burns^[1] (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker known for his documentary films and television series, many of which chronicle Americanhistory and culture.

His work is often produced in association with WETA-TV or the National Endowment for the Humanities and distributed by PBS.

Burns's widely known documentary series include The Civil War (1990), Baseball (1994), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009), Prohibition (2011), The Roosevelts (2014), The Vietnam War (2017), and Country Music (2019).

He was also executive producer of both The West (1996), and Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies (2015).^[2] Burns's documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (for 1981's Brooklyn Br Ken Burns Biography - Childhood, Life Achievements & Timeline MAHIP