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New York: A Documentary Film is an eight-part, 17½ hour, American documentary film on the history of New York City. It was directed by Ric Burns and originally aired in the U.S. on PBS. The film was a production of Steeplechase Films in association with WGBH Boston, Thirteen/WNET, and The New-York Historical Society.
Burns was born on July 29, 1953, [1] in Brooklyn, New York, to Lyla Smith (née Tupper) Burns, [3] a biotechnician, [4] and Robert Kyle Burns Jr., at the time a graduate student in cultural anthropology at Columbia University in Manhattan. [3]
The film was rebroadcast nationally twice: on January 29, 1992, preceding the then-new documentary from Burns, Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio, [8] and on October 21, 2002, as part of Ken Burns: America's Stories. [9]
From right, documentarian Ken Burns and his daughter Sarah Burns and her husband, David McMahon. The three filmmakers combined forces on 'Leonardo da Vinci,' a new PBS documentary on the ...
PBS has unveiled its fall programming slate, which includes premiere dates for Ken Burns' 16-hour Country Music along with several other docunmentaries and the new contemporary-history series ...
On the brink of turning 70, Ken Burns will release his very first film, “Working in Rural New England,” which he made as an undergraduate at Hampshire College. The 28-minute docu will be ...
During his career he was also executive vice president at WNET in New York and senior vice president for PBS. [3] He retired from public broadcasting in 2003. [1] Ward was one of the founders of AFS Intercultural Programs and is among the veterans featured in Ken Burns' documentary The War. [4] [1]
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