ÿþ<html> <head> <title>documentary filmmaker Ken Burns Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store</title> <META name="author" content="G.E. Nordell"> <META name="copyright" content="Gary Edward Nordell 2008-2011, all rights reserved"> <meta name="description" content="Producer director Ken Burns makes documentary miniseries for major networks in U.S.A., which so far cover The West, Native Americans, baseball, the Brooklyn Bridge, the U.S. Civil War, jazz music, and more."> <meta name="keywords" content="producer,director Ken Burns,producer-director,auteur,documentary filmmaker,syyze1,syyze2"> <META name="robots" content="index,follow"> </head> <body background=images/bgleftfilmstrip.gif bgcolor="#ffffff" text="green" link="blue" alink="#add8e6" vlink="#0000b0" leftmargin=60 rightmargin=40> <basefont size="4" face="times new roman,arial,helvetica"><center> <a name="top"> </a><br><h1><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica">Magic Lantern Video & Book Store<p>documentary filmmaker<br><big>Ken&nbsp&nbsp;Burns</big></font></h1> <table border=0><tr><td><img src=images/KenBurns-withcamera.jpg border=1 width=324 height=193 alt="documentary filmmaker Ken Burns with camera">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td align=right valign=center><b> <a href="#bio">short profile</a> <p><a href="#movies">movies by Ken Burns</a> <p><a href="#books">books by Ken Burns</a> <p><a href="#about">works about Ken Burns</a> <p><a href="#FF">friends & family</a> <p><a href="#links">links</a></b> </td></tr></table> <font color="red" face="comic sans ms, Helvetica, Garamond, Times"> <p><br>"I grew up certain for a while that I was going to be an anthropologist, until film turned my head." <p>"I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and<br>more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films." <p>"I subscribe to <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/Faulkner.htm" target="_blank">William Faulkner</a>'s view that history is not just about what we were before<br>but [about] who we are now." <p>"In a sense I've made the same film over and over again. In all of them I've asked,<br>'Who are we as Americans?'. <p>&mdash; Ken Burns</font> <br><a name="bio"> </a><div align=left> <br>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;B I O <p>&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;h e r e </div> <p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/" target="_blank">P.B.S. official Ken Burns website</a> <br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns" target="_blank">Ken Burns entry at Wikipedia</a> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122741/" target="_blank">Ken Burns credits [since 1981] at Internet Movie Database</a> <p><hr color=silver width=450> <p><table border=0><tr><td align=center><img src=images/EmmyAward_sm.jpg width=34 height=60 alt="won shared Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Informational Programming for &quot;The Civil War&quot; [1990]">&nbsp&nbsp;<img src=images/EmmyAward_sm.jpg width=34 height=60 alt="won shared Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series for &quot;The Civil War&quot; [1990]">&nbsp&nbsp;<img src=images/EmmyAward_sm.jpg width=34 height=60 alt="won shared Emmy Award for Outstanding Informational Series for &quot;Baseball&quot; [1994]">&nbsp&nbsp;<img src=images/EmmyAward_sm.jpg width=34 height=60 alt="won shared Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Special for &quot;Unforgivable Blackness&quot; [2004]">&nbsp&nbsp;<img src=images/EmmyAward_sm.jpg width=34 height=60 alt="won shared Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series for &quot;The National Parks&quot; [2009]">&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td align=center valign=center> <big>Ken Burns has won 5 shared Emmy Awards <br>&mdash; out of 12 nominations, 1986-2010</big> </td></tr></table><p>He also has received <br>two Erik Barnouw Awards from the Organization of American Historians, 1983 & 1986 <br>two Oscar nominations, 1986 & 1988 <br>shared Humanitas Prize Special Award, 1991 <br>International Documentary Association Award, 1991 <br>two awards from the Producers Guild of America, 1991 & 1998 <br>Golden Space Needle Award at the Seattle International Film Festival, 1998 <br>shared Bronze Wrangler Award at the Western Heritage Awards, 1998 <br>shared Spur Award from the Western Writers of America, 1998 <br>Best TV Documentary Award & a Lifetime Achievement Award at the St. Louis Intl. Film Festival, 2001 <br>International Documentary Association Career Achievement Award, 2002 <br>and a C.I.N.E. Leadership Award, 2003 <p><a name="movies"> </a><hr color=silver width=450> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><big><big><b>Movies&nbsp&nbsp;By&nbsp&nbsp;Ken Burns</b></big></big></font> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122741/" target="_blank">Ken Burns credits [since 1981] at Internet Movie Database</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=%22Ken+Burns%22&tag=nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">browse Ken Burns on DVD at Amazon</a> <p><table border=0 width=700><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Ken Burns's America Collection DVD box set" width=106 height=144 src=covers/dKenBurnsAmerica.jpg>&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Ken Burns: America Collection" Box Set [1998]</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BITUES/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color DVD set [9/2004] 7 disks for $89.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6304048785/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color VHS [10/98] 7 tapes - out of prodn/used</a> <br><font color=maroon>contains 7 feature-length documentary films: "Brooklyn Bridge" [1981], "The Shakers" [1984], "The Statue of Liberty" [1985], "Huey Long" [1985], "The Congress" [1988], "Thomas Hart Benton" [1988], and "Empire of The Air" [1991]</font> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Ken Burns's American Lives Collection DVD box set" width=106 height=146 src=covers/dKenBurnsAmericanLivesCollxn.jpg>&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Ken Burns: American Lives Collection" DVD Box Set [2005]</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000ANVQ50/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color DVD set [10/2005] 7 disks for $66.99</a> <br><font color=maroon>contains 7 feature-length documentary films: "Thomas Jefferson" [1996], "Lewis & Clark"<br>[1997], "Frank Lloyd Wright" [1998], "Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony" [1999], "Mark Twain" [2001], "Horatio's Drive" [2003], and "Unforgivable Blackness" [2005]</font> </td></tr></table> <font face=webdings color=black><big><big>·&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp;·</big></big></font> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Brooklyn Bridge"</b></font> [P.B.S. Nov 1981] <table border=0 width=720><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Brooklyn Bridge documentary from P.B.S. & Ken Burns" width=106 height=159 src="covers/dKenBurnsBrooklynBridge.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><font color=maroon>Hour-long documentary on the design, construction, and recent history of the bridge from Brooklyn to Manhattan, which opened in May 1883.</font> Co-produced & directed by Ken Burns; co-produced & written by Amy Stechler; narrated by historian David McCullough; interviewees include <a href=ArthurMiller.htm target="_blank">Arthur Miller</a> & <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/Vonnegut.htm" target="_blank">Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.</a>; Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BITUFW/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [9/2004] for $17.49</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6304048653/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color VHS [2/97] for $7.95</a> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082106/fullcredits" target="_blank">full credits at IMDb</a> " <a href="http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/brooklynbridge/" target="_blank">official movie site</a> " <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge_(film)" target="_blank">movie entry at Wikipedia</a> </td></tr></table> <img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><b><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica">"The Shakers: Hands To Work, Hearts To God"</b></font> (1984) /tt0243548/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-America-David-McCullough/dp/B000BITUIY/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-America-Shakers-VHS/dp/6304048734/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Shakers-Hands-Work-Hearts-God/dp/B00007KE4I/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><b><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica">"The Statue of Liberty"</b></font> (1985) /tt0092011/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-America-Statue-Liberty/dp/B000BITUJ8/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burnss-America-Statue-Liberty/dp/B00006G8IM/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burnss-America-Statue-Liberty/dp/6304048610/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Statue-Liberty-VHS-Ken-Burns/dp/5554771866/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><b><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica">"Huey Long"</b></font> [1985 documentary] /tt0089310/ <br>Directed by Ken Burns; <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089310/" target="_blank">credits at IMDb</a> <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-America-Collection-Huey/dp/B000BITUHK/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><b><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica">"The Congress"</b></font> (1988) /tt0272052/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-America-Congress/dp/B000BITUG6/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Congress-VHS-David-McCullough/dp/6304048661/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Congress-David-McCullough/dp/B0002JP51I/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Congress-David-McCullough/dp/B00007KE4G/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><b><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica">"Thomas Hart Benton"</b></font> (1988) /tt0272887/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-America-Thomas-Benton/dp/B000BITUJI/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Hart-Benton/dp/B0002JP4RS/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-America-Thomas-Benton/dp/630404870X/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><b><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica">"The Civil War"</b></font> [Sept 1990] <br>http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Film-Ken-Burns/dp/B0002KPI2S/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-Civil-War-Commemorative/dp/B004AR4WSA/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Ken-Burns/dp/B004IK30T6/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Film-Burns-Boxed/dp/6301996135/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Film-Ken-Burns/dp/B000068ULD/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Civil-War-Ken-Burns-Video/dp/B000DN8F4M/ VHS <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><b><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica">"The American Experience: Nixon"</b></font> 3-part documentary [PBS Oct 1990] <table border=0 width=650><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="American Experience, The Presidents - Nixon on DVD" width=105 height=150 src="covers/dPBSnixon.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td>Ken Burns is credited as 'senior creative consultant' <br><a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0094416/fullcredits" target="_blank">series credits from IMDb</a> " <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1406215/fullcredits" target="_blank">Part I credits</a> " <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0849819/fullcredits" target="_blank">Part II credits</a> " <a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt1406216/fullcredits" target="_blank">Part III credits</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B001D0HRU2/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [8/2008] for $22.49</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/630483652X/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color VHS [7/2000] 2 tapes for $2.36</a> </td></tr></table> <img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Empire&nbsp&nbsp;of&nbsp&nbsp;The&nbsp&nbsp;Air:&nbsp&nbsp;The&nbsp&nbsp;Men&nbsp&nbsp;Who&nbsp&nbsp;Made&nbsp&nbsp;Radio"</b></font>&nbsp&nbsp;[P.B.S. Oct 1991] <table border=0 width=700><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Ken Burns Empire of The Air" width=105 height=144 src=covers/dKBempireradio.jpg>&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><font color=maroon>While showcasing on-air radio talents from long ago, this 100-minute documentary also details the corporate soap opera of the development of radio as a commercial medium.</font><br>Co-written & directed by Ken Burns; hosted by Jason Robards, Jr. <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002JP4PA/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Paramount b&w/color DVD [9/2004] out of prodn/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6304048688/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color VHS [2/97] out of prodn/used</a> <br><a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0238199/fullcredits" target="_blank">full credits from IMDb</a> <br><big>companion book by Tom Lewis</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060981199/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Harper Perennial 8x5&frac12 pb [1/93] out of print/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060182156/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">HarperCollins 9&frac12x6&frac12 hardcover [9/91] out of print/many used</a> </td></tr></table> <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Seeing, Searching, Being: Three Films by Ken Burns"</b></font> [indep 1992-99]<br><font color=red>SPECIAL FIND:</font> This Ken Burns short film trilogy is not listed at either IMDb or Wikipedia <table border=0><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Seeing, Searching, Being: Three Films about William Segal by Ken Burns" width=106 height=153 src="covers/dKenBurnsWmSegal.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><font color=maroon>In the last decade of his life, philosopher, publisher, writer & painter William Segal<br>befriended filmmaker Ken Burns, and the two collaborated on an 'interior' trilogy of<br>short films: "William Segal" [1992?], "Vézelay" [1995], and "In The Marketplace" [1999]</font><br>Directed by Ken Burns " not listed at IMDb <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003J7HOC8/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [10/2010] for $14.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000067IZJ/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Mystic Fire Video color DVD [6/2002] out of prodn/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000067JDQ/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Mystic Fire Video color VHS [6/2002] for $12.95</a> </td></tr></table> <br>subject William Segal [1904-2000]: <a href="http://www.williamsegal.org/" target="_blank">official website</a> " <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Segal" target="_blank">entry at Wikipedia</a> <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Gettysburg"</b></font> [Oct 1993] <br>Ken Burns had a small role as Hancock's Aide, and is featured in the 'Making of ..." docufilm <p>"The Making of <i>Gettysburg</i> [2000] /tt0363789/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Gettysburg-Widescreen-Tom-Berenger/dp/B00003CXA6/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Ken Burns's Baseball"</b></font> mini-series [WETA/P.B.S. Sept 1994] <table border=0 width=750><tr valign=top><td align=right><img src=images/EmmyAward_sm.jpg width=34 height=60 alt="won Emmy for Outstanding Informational Series">&nbsp&nbsp;<img alt="Ken Burns's Baseball P.B.S. series DVD box set" width=105 height=168 src="covers/dKenBurnsBaseball.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td>Exec produced, co-written & co-directed by Ken Burns; co-produced, co-written &<br>co-directed by Lynn Novick; narrated by Aidan Quinn; won Emmy for Outstanding<br>Informational Series; <font color=maroon>9 two-hour episodes; the nine 'innings' titles are <br>Inning 1: "Our Game"<br>Inning 2: "Something Like A War"<br>Inning 3: "The Faith of Fifty Million People"<br>Inning 4: "A National Heirloom"<br>Inning 5: "Shadow Ball: The History of The Negro Leagues"<br>Inning 6: "The National Pastime"<br>Inning 7: "The Capital of Baseball"<br>Inning 8: "A Whole New Ball Game"<br>Inning 9: "Home"<br>the 10th disk is called "Extra Innings"</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BITUDO/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color DVD set [9/2004] 10 disks for $74.48</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6303218725/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color VHS set [4/95] 9 tapes for $32.68</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005J2P/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Nonesuch soundtrack CD [6/94] 31 tracks for $10.08</a> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108700/fullcredits" target="_blank">full credits at IMDb</a> " <a href="http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/baseball/" target="_blank">P.B.S. official site</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Who Invented The Game of Baseball? book by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns" width=105 height=131 src="covers/KenBurnsBaseballWhoInvented.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><br><big>"Who Invented The Game?: Baseball, The American Epic" [1994]<br>by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns, with Paul Robert Walker</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/075677571X/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Knopf 10x8&frac12 hardcover [3/94] for $12.00</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Shadow Ball, History of The Negro Leagues book by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns" width=105 height=129 src="covers/KenBurnsBaseballShadowBallNegro.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td> <big>"Shadow Ball: The History of The Negro Leagues" [YA 1994]<br>by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns, with Jim O'Connor</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/067986749X/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Knopf 10x8 hardcover [9/94] out of print/many used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679967494/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Knopf 9x6 hardcover [9/94] out of print/used</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Baseball Illustrated History book by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns" width=105 height=126 src="covers/KenBurnsBaseball.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Baseball: An Illustrated History" [1994 companion book]<br>by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679765417/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Knopf 10&frac12x9 pb [8/96] out of print/many, many used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679404597/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Knopf 11x9&frac12 {5.2 pounds} hardcover [9/94] out of print/hundreds used</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="The Making of 'Baseball' film by Ken Burns video" width=96 height=180 src="covers/vKenBurnsBaseballMakingof.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"The Making of <i>Baseball: A Film by Ken Burns</i>" [1994?]</big><br>no details provided; not listed at IMDb <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BK2Z84/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color VHS [1994?] for $5.95</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Baseball, The Tenth Inning documentary film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick" width=106 height=135 src="covers/dKenBurnsBaseballTenthInning.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Baseball: The Tenth Inning" [P.B.S. Sept 2010]</big><br><font color=maroon>2-part sequel covering events in the National Leagues in the sixteen years since the "Baseball" documentary was broadcast; bonus features include an interview with Ken Burns & Lynn Novick, additional scenes & outtakes, featurette on baseball in the Dominican Republic</font> <br>Exec produced, co-written & co-directed by Ken Burns; co-produced, co-written &<br>co-directed by Lynn Novick <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003XEKXWA/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video/Paramount widescreen b&w/color Blu-ray [10/2010] 2 disks for $21.75</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003S1UNZK/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color Blu-ray [10/2010] 2 disks for $17.45</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B003S1UNZA/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color DVD [10/2010] for $16.48</a> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1738421/fullcredits" target="_blank">'Top of The Tenth' credits at IMDb</a> " <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1777725/fullcredits" target="_blank">'Bottom of The Tenth' credits at IMDb</a> <br><br></td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Baseball Illustrated History including The Tenth Inning book by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns" width=106 height=122 src="covers/KenBurnsBaseball&TenthInning.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"Baseball: An Illustrated History - including The Tenth Inning"<br>[2010 companion book] by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/037571197X/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Knopf 10&frac34x9&frac14 pb [9/2010] for $26.37</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307273490/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Knopf 11&frac12x9&frac12 hardcover [9/2010] for $52.50</a> </td></tr></table> see also <a href=baseballFF.htm target="_blank">Magic Lantern's Baseball Film Festival</a> <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Thomas Jefferson: A Film by Ken Burns"</b></font> [P.B.S. 1996] <table border=0><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Ken Burns Thomas Jefferson special" width=96 height=140 src="covers/dTJkenburns.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td>Directed by Ken Burns; written by Geoffrey C. Ward;<br>narration by Ossie Davis & Sam Waterston <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MEPP/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color DVD [8/2001] for $25.49</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002JP53G/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S./Paramount color DVD [9/2004] out of prodn/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/630428957X/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video color VHS [1/2002] for $16.23</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6304287895/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Simitar color VHS [1996] 2 tapes for $4.95</a> <br><a href="http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0118489" target="_blank">full credits from IMDb</a> </td></tr></table> <p>see also the <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/TJefferson.htm" target="_blank">Thomas Jefferson [1743-1826] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore</a> <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>Ken Burns Presents "The West"</b></font>&nbsp&nbsp[1996 miniseries] <table border=0 width=700><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Ken Burns &quot;The West&quot; PBS miniseries" width=106 height=150 src="covers/dTheWestKB.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;<p><img alt="Ken Burns The West companion book" border=1 width=106 height=124 src="covers/TheWestGCW.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td>Executive produced by Ken Burns; directed by Stephen Ives; narrated by Peter Coyote <font color=maroon> <br>Episode One (to 1806): The People <br>Episode Two (1806-48): Empire Upon The Trails <br>Episode Three (1848-56): Speck of The Future <br>Episode Four (1856-68): Death Runs Riot <br>Episode Five (1868-74): The Grandest Enterprise Under God <br>Episode Six (1874-77): Fight No More Forever <br>Episode Seven (1877-87): The Geography of Hope <br>Episode Eight (1887-1914): One Sky Above Us</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BITUFC/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. color DVD [9/2004] 5 disks for $116.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6304209908/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. color VHS [1/98] 9 tapes for $94.98</a> <br>http://www.amazon.com/Burns-Presents-West-Film-Stephen/dp/B00093IC62/ <br><a href="http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0115418" target="_blank">full credits from IMDb</a> " <a href="http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/" target="_blank">PBS official website</a> <br><big>"The West: An Illustrated History" {1996 companion book}<br>by Geoffrey C. Ward</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0316735892/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Back Bay 10&frac34x9&frac14 pb [2/2003] for $16.47</a> </td></tr></table> <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Lewis & Clark: The Journey of The Corps of Discovery"</b></font> [1997] <br>http://www.amazon.com/Lewis-Clark-Journey-Corps-Discovery/dp/B000BITUHU/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Frank &nbsp;Lloyd &nbsp;Wright"</b></font> [PBS miniseries Nov 1998]</font> <table border=0><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Frank Lloyd Wright PBS special" width=98 height=140 src="covers/dFLWkenburns.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td>Co-produced & co-directed by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick;<br>narration by Edward Herrmann; won Peabody Award <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005MEPO/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">PBS Home Video color DVD [8/2001] for $26.98</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/078062176X/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">PBS Home Video color VHS [1/2002] 2 tapes - out of prodn/many, many used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005YM79/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">PBS Home Video color VHS [8/2001] for $8.99</a> <br><a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0144937/fullcredits" target="_blank">full credits from IMDb</a> " <a href="http://www.pbs.org/flw/" target="_blank">PBS webpages</a> </td></tr></table> <p>see also the <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/FLWright.htm" target="_blank">Frank Lloyd Wright [1867-1959] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore</a> <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Not For Ourselves Alone: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony"</b></font> [1999] <br>http://www.amazon.com/Not-Ourselves-Alone-Elizabeth-Stanton/dp/B00008WI9Q/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Jazz: A Film by Ken Burns"</b></font> [P.B.S. miniseries Jan 2000] <table border=0 width=700><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Jazz miniseries by Ken Burns" height=120 src="covers/dJazz_KBurns.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td>Directed by Ken Burns; narrated by Keith David<font color=maroon> <br>Episode 1: Gumbo - Beginnings to 1917 <br>Episode 2: The Gift, 1917-1924 <br>Episode 3: Our Language, 1924 -1929 <br>Episode 4: The True Welcome, 1929-1934 <br>Episode 5: Swing - Pure Pleasure, 1935-1937 <br>Episode 6: Swing - The Velocity of Celebration, 1937-1939 <br>Episode 7: Dedicated To Chaos, 1940-1945 <br>Episode 8: Risk, 1945-1955 <br>Episode 9: The Adventure, 1956-1960 <br>Episode 10: A Masterpiece by Midnight, 1960 to The Present</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000BITUEI/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Paramount b&w/color DVD set [9/2004] 10 disks for $79.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004XQOU/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color DVD set [1/2001] 10 disks - out of prodn/used</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050HEQ/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color VHS set [1/2001] 10 tapes for $95.99</a> <br><a href="http://us.imdb.com/Credits?0221300" target="_blank">series credits from IMDb</a> <br><big>"Ken Burns's Jazz: The Story of American Music" music CD set [2000]</big> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000050HVG/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Sony music CD set [11/2000] 92 tracks on 5 disks for $37.05</a> </td></tr></table> <p>see also the <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/jazz.htm" target="_blank">Jazz Music Page at Spirit of America Bookstore</a> <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Mark Twain"</b></font> (2001) <br>http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twain-Film-Directed-Burns/dp/B000BITUI4/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Mark-Twain-Film-Directed-Burns/dp/B00005RDB0/ <p>see also the <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/MarkTwain.htm" target="_blank">Mark Twain [1835-1910] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore</a> <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip"</b></font> (2003) <br>http://www.amazon.com/Horatios-Drive-Americas-First-Road/dp/B000BITUHA/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Horatios-Drive-Americas-First-Road/dp/B0000A02Y2/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Horatios-Drive-Americas-First-Road/dp/B0002JP4XW/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson"</b></font> [2005] <br>http://www.amazon.com/Unforgivable-Blackness-Rise-Fall-Johnson/dp/B0006FO8IY/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"The&nbsp&nbsp;War:&nbsp&nbsp;A&nbsp&nbsp;Ken &nbsp;Burns&nbsp&nbsp;Film"</b></font>&nbsp&nbsp[P.B.S. Sept 2007] <table border=0 width=700><tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="Ken Burns' &quot;The War&quot; PBS miniseries" width=104 height=141 src=covers/dKenBurnsTheWar.jpg>&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td>Co-produced & co-directed by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000R7NBMK/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. widescreen color DVD [10/2007] 6 disks for $79.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000TGUUHS/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Sony TV soundtrack CD [9/2007] 67 tracks on 4 disks for $24.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000TSIJU6/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Sony 17-track soundtrack CD [9/2007] for $12.97</a> <br><a href="http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0996994/fullcredits" target="_blank">full credits from IMDb</a> " <a href="http://www.pbs.org/thewar/" target="_blank">official P.B.S. website</a> </td></tr> <tr valign=top><td align=right><img alt="The War / Intimate History" width=104 height=121 src="covers/TheWarWKB.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td><big>"The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945" [2007 companion book]<br>by Geoffrey C. Ward & Ken Burns</font> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307262839/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Knopf 11x9&frac12 hardcover [9/2007] for $29.99</a> </td></tr></table> <img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"The National Parks: America's Best Idea"</b></font> [2009] <br>http://www.amazon.com/National-Parks-Americas-Best-Blu-ray/dp/B002GWDK6Q/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/KEN-BURNS-NATIONAL-AMERICAS-Format/dp/B002HK9HQY/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/National-Parks-Americas-Best-Idea/dp/B002BO2R4K/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/KEN-BURNS-NATIONAL-PARKS-AMERICAS/dp/B002HK9IOA/ <br>http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns-National-Americas-Soundtrack/dp/B002UFIJRE/ <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Prohibition: A Film by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick"</b></font>&nbsp&nbsp;<img src=images/newredylo.gif><br>3-part TV documentary [WETA-TV/P.B.S. Oct 2011] <table border=0 width=768><tr valign=top><td align=right> <img alt="Prohibition" width=106 height=154 src="covers/dKenBurnsProhibition.jpg">&nbsp&nbsp;</td><td> <font color=maroon>Three 2-hour episodes; covers the history of alcoholic beverages in America, the passage of the 18th Amendment (ratified january 1919), the Roaring Twenties and <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/GreatDepression.htm" target="_blank">The Great Depression</a>, <a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/orgcrime.htm" target="_blank">organized crime</a>, and repeal by passage of the 21st Amendment (ratified December 1933). Episode titles are "A Nation of Drunkards", "A Nation of Scofflaws" & "A Nation of Hypocrites". DVD has 90 minutes of bonus material.</font> <br>Co-produced & co-directed by Ken Burns & Lynn Novick; based on the book by Geoffrey C. Ward <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0052YDO3O/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color Blu-ray [10/2011] 3 disks for $34.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004NJC0R0/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">P.B.S. Home Video b&w/color DVD [10/2011] 3 disks for $27.99</a> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1950799/fullcredits" target="_blank">series credits at IMDb</a> " <a href="http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/prohibition/" target="_blank">P.B.S. official movie site</a> </td></tr></table> the companion book by Geoffrey C. Ward is not yet available <p><img src=images/tiny_moviecamera_grn.gif> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"The Dust Bowl"</b></font> [scheduled for 2012] <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"The Central Park Five"</b></font> [scheduled for 2013] <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"The Roosevelts"</b></font> [scheduled for 2014] <br><a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/TheodoreRoosevelt.htm" target="_blank">Theodore Roosevelt [1858-1919] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore</a> <br><a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/FDRoosevelt32.htm" target="_blank">Franklin Delano Roosevelt [1882-1945] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore</a> <br><a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/EleanorRoosevelt.htm" target="_blank">Eleanor Roosevelt [1884-1962] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore</a> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Jackie Robinson"</b></font> [scheduled for 2015] <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Vietnam"</b></font> [scheduled for 2016] <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Country Music"</b></font> [scheduled for 2018] <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><b>"Ernest Hemingway"</b></font> [scheduled for 2019] <br><a href="http://www.genordell.com/stores/spirit/Hemingway.htm" target="_blank">Ernest Hemingway [1899-1961] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore</a> <p><a name="books"> </a><br><img src=images/filmline.jpg> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><big><big><b>Books&nbsp&nbsp;by&nbsp&nbsp;Ken&nbsp&nbsp;Burns</b></big></big></font><br>Included here are books by Ken Burns that are <b>NOT</b> companion books to his films (which are coded above) <p>"Film and History" [1992] by Ken Burns<small> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0016D2BM0/nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">Florida Historians Film Committee pb [12/92] out of print/scarce</a></small> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns/e/B000AP9HWW/?tag=nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">browse all books by Ken Burns at Amazon</a> <p><a name="about"> </a><br><img src=images/filmline.jpg> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><big><big><b>Works&nbsp&nbsp;About&nbsp&nbsp;Ken&nbsp&nbsp;Burns</b></big></big></font><p>there don't seem to be any (10/2011) <p><a name="FF"> </a><br><img src=images/filmline.jpg> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><big><big><b>Friends & Family</b></big></big></font> <p>brother Ric Burns /nm0122849/ <p>NOT related to Fox TV executive Kevin Burns /nm0122745/ <p><a name="links"> </a><br><img src=images/filmline.jpg> <p><font face="desdemona,arial,helvetica"><big><big><b>L i n k s</b></big></big></font> <p><a href="http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/" target="_blank">P.B.S. official Ken Burns website</a> <br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns" target="_blank">Ken Burns entry at Wikipedia</a> <br><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122741/" target="_blank">Ken Burns credits [since 1981] at Internet Movie Database</a> <p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=%22Ken+Burns%22&tag=nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">browse Ken Burns on DVD at Amazon</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ken-Burns/e/B000AP9HWW/?tag=nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">browse all books by Ken Burns at Amazon</a> <br><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Geoffrey-C.-Ward/e/B000AP9HVS/?tag=nordellbookst-20" target="_blank">browse all books by Geoffrey C. Ward at Amazon</a> <p><a href="http://www.nhmagazine.com/people/913946-113/the-ken-burns-effect.html" target="_blank">April 2011 article "The Ken Burns Effect" from New Hampshire Magazine</a> <p><br><hr color=magenta width=500> <p>Online sales in association with&nbsp&nbsp;<a href="http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&search-alias=dvd&field-keywords=%22Ken+Burns%22&tag=nordellbookst-20" target="_blank"><img border=0 width=100 height=30 src=images/amazon.gif alt="browse Ken Burns on DVD at Amazon"></a> <p><a href=#top>top of this page</a> " " <a href=index.htm>back to Magic Lantern homepage</a> <p><script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="http://hits.webstat.com/cgi-bin/wsv2.cgi?52732"></script> <noscript><a href="http://www.webstat.com"><img SRC="http://hits.webstat.com/scripts/wsb.php?ac=52732" border="0" alt="WebSTAT - Free Web Statistics"></a></noscript> </center> </body> </html>