Ken Burns summary

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Ken Burns, (born July 29, 1953, Brooklyn, N.Y., U.S.), U.S. documentary filmmaker. He founded his own production company in 1975 and made such documentary films as Brooklyn Bridge (1981), The Shakers (1984), The Statue of Liberty (1985), and The Congress (1988). His acclaimed series The Civil War (1990), televised on PBS, won numerous filmmaking and history awards. His later television documentaries included Baseball (1994), Lewis and Clark (1997), Frank Lloyd Wright (1998), Jazz (2001), The War (2007), Prohibition (2011), The Dust Bowl (2012), The Vietnam War (2017), and Country Music (2019).

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