Ken Burns

Ken Burns is the producer and director of numerous documentary film series, including <EM>The Vietnam War, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History</EM> and <em>The War.</em> He founded his own documentary film company, Florentine Films, in 1976. His landmark film, <em>The Civil War,</em> was the highest-rated series in the history of American public television, and his work has won numerous prizes, including the Emmy and Peabody Awards, and two Academy Award nominations. He lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.