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Documentarian Ken Burns to Teach Online Filmmaking Class
Burns says he will "explore the ways in which I strive to bring the same expositional tools of a feature film to documentary filmmaking."
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How Ken Burns and Lynn Novick Assembled Their Epic Documentary ‘The Vietnam War’
"We are all searching for some meaning in this terrible tragedy."
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Ken Burns Creates Art Out of Archival Footage for ‘The Vietnam War’
Coming to PBS this fall will be Ken Burns’s latest in-depth documentary series. Co-directed with Lynn Novick, The Vietnam War features testimony from nearly...
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Ken Burns Says Documentary Editing Is Like Maple Syrup: It Takes 40 Gallons of Sap for 1 Gallon of Syrup
Ken Burns’s new documentary Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War is directed in collaboration with his friend Artemis Joukowsky whose grandmother is Martha Sharp, the matriarch...
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Ken Burns on Why Jackie Robinson’s Story Is Still So Important
Ken Burns’ new documentary Jackie Robinson is a four-hour, two-part film about the legendary baseball player who broke barriers and fought for civil rights...
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Ken Burns Finds the Familiar in Telling the Larger-Than-Life Story of ‘The Roosevelts’
"They are the boldest of the boldface names in American politics we found something that was familiar about them because of these things...