Ken Burns
Directing
41
Acting Credits
45
Directed
Biography
Ken Burns (born 1953) is a highly celebrated American documentarian who gradually amassed a considerable reputation and a devoted audience with a series of reassuringly traditional meditations on Americana. Burns' works are treasure troves of archival materials; he skillfully utilizes period music and footage, photographs, periodicals and ordinary people's correspondence, the latter often movingly read by seasoned professional actors in a deliberate attempt to get away from a "Great Man" approac...
Known For
Filmography
Ken Burns: One Nation, Many Stories
2024
In the Know
2024
as Self
Spirit of Golf
2023
as Self
The Unmaking of a College
2022
as Self
Back on the Record with Bob Costas
2021
as Self
The Problem with Jon Stewart
2021
as Self
Ken Burns: Here & There
2020
as Himself
Here For A Good Time
2020
as Self
Very Ralph
2019
as Self
Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
as Self - Director and Producer
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
2018
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self - Guest
Difficult People
2015
as Ken Burns
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
as Self
OETA's On the Record: Ken Burns
2014
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
as Self - Guest
Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit
2013
as Narrator (Voice)
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
2012
as Self
Finding Your Roots
2012
as Self
The Mindy Project
2012
as Ken Burns
A Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939
2010
MLB: Baseball's Seasons
2009
as Self - Filmmaker
Craft in America
2007
as Himself
Wordplay
2006
as Self
The Colbert Report
2005
as Self
The Tim McCarver Show
2005
The Colbert Report
2005
as Self (uncredited)
The Tony Danza Show
2004
as Self
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
as Self
The View
1997
as Self
The Daily Show
1996
as Self
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
as Self - Guest
Late Show with David Letterman
1993
as Self - Guest
The Simpsons
1989
as Ken Burns (voice)
This Week
1981
CNN Special Report
1980
as Self
60 Minutes
1968
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1962
as Self
Face the Nation
1954
as Self
Today
1952
as Self