Ken Burns

Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American documentary filmmaker.

The Civil War

Main article: The Civil War (documentary)

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Ken Burns' film series The Civil War is generally considered to be his masterpiece. Burns was the director, producer, co-writer, chief cinematographer, music director and executive producer of The Civil War. The series has been honored with more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards, Producer of the Year Award from the Producer's Guild, People's Choice Award, Peabody Award, duPont-Columbia Award, D.W. Griffiths Award, and the $50,000 Lincoln Prize, among dozens of others. The nine episodes explore the Civil War through personal stories and photos that create a very different kind of experience from watching nearly any other modern movie today. When Burns was filming the movie, he filmed thousands of archived photographs. This resulted in the aforementioned ?Ken-Burns Effect? being coined.

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The Civil War has been viewed by more than 40 million people. (PBS.org)

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