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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History is a 2014 American documentary television miniseries directed and produced by Ken Burns.It covers the lives and times of the three most prominent members of the Roosevelt family, Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican and the 26th President of the United States; Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, the 32nd President of the United States, and fifth cousin of ...
In 2023, a 2013 photograph of Ken Burns and Clarence Thomas at a Koch Brothers fundraising event was made public in a Pro Publica article about Justice Thomas' ties to right wing activists. [35] Burns stated that the encounter was a brief social encounter resulting from Charles Koch 's support of PBS programming.
Ken Burns' documentary first aired on PBS on January 29, 1992, narrated by actor Jason Robards. [4] The film focused primarily [5] on the three pioneers [6] of radio in America: Lee de Forest, Edwin Howard Armstrong, and David Sarnoff. [7]
In The War, Ken Burns does away with his traditional overview mode of storytelling in exchange for a zoomed-in look at World War II through the lenses of four small towns and the folks who resided ...
He won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2015 for his work on Ken Burns ' s documentary miniseries The Roosevelts: An Intimate History. [ 3 ] Coyote was one of the founders of the Diggers , an anarchist improv group active in Haight-Ashbury during the mid-1960s, including the Summer of Love .
Since that project, he worked with Ken Burns on The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, a seven-part documentary miniseries depicting the lives of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Eleanor Roosevelt, (broadcast on PBS in September 2014), and a multi-part TV series "The Vietnam War", with Lynn Novick and Ken Burns (broadcast on PBS in ...
The following summary appeared in the 2001 PBS DVD Gold release of the film: "Sent by President Thomas Jefferson to find the fabled Northwest Passage, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the most important expedition in American history—a voyage of danger and discovery from St. Louis to the headwaters of the Missouri River, over the Continental Divide to the Pacific.
Sarah Burns is an American author, public speaker, and filmmaker.She is the author of The Central Park Five: A Chronicle of a City Wilding.She is also the co-producer and director for the documentary film The Central Park Five which she co-produced and directed with her husband David McMahon and her father Ken Burns.