Talk:Ric Burns

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Ric Burns is a documentary filmmaker and writer. He has been writing, directing and producing historical documentaries for nearly 20 years, since his collaboration on the celebrated PBS series The Civil War, (1990), which he produced with his brother Ken, and wrote with Geoffrey C. Ward.

Since founding Steeplechase Films in 1989, he has directed several programs for WGBH Boston's American Experience, including Coney Island (1991). He also wrote and directed The Donner Party (1992).

In 1995, Burns wrote, directed, and co-produced The Way West. In April 2002, Burns completed Ansel Adams, a co-production of Steeplechase Films and Sierra Club Productions for American Experience.

[edit] New York: A Documentary Film

Burns is probably best known for his series New York: A Documentary Film, which premiered nationally on PBS. The eight-part, seventeen and a half hour film chronicles the city’s rise from a tiny Dutch settlement through its continuing reign as cultural capital of the world.

The first five episodes of New York were broadcast in November 1999; the sixth and seventh episodes in the fall of 2001; and the eighth and final episode in September 2003.

[edit] Recent Films

In March 2006, American Experience aired Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film.

In September 2006, Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film aired as the part of WNET, New York’s American Masters 20th Anniversary series.

[edit] Books

Burns co-authored, (with James Sanders and Lisa Ades), New York: An Illustrated History, the companion book to the New York series. He is also as well as co-author, with Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, of the companion book to The Civil War. Both books are published by Alfred A. Knopf.