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Ric Burns

Highest Rated: 100% Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (2019)

Lowest Rated: 90% Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq (2013)

Birthday: Not Available

Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland, USA

The younger brother and sometimes collaborator of the famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, Ric Burns is an accomplished documentarian in his own right. Shaped largely by the teachings of his anthropologist father, his probing, life-long interest in all things sociology first manifested onscreen with an associate producer role on Ken's crackerjack "The Civil War "(1990), a doc widely considered to be among the most definitive, comprehensive historical examinations ever committed to film. Five years later, he made his own directorial debut with "The Way West," a uniquely dynamic study of the seismic shifts in land ownership that occurred between Native Americans and early white settlers. The little-seen TV special effectively set the mold for a long line of expansive, galvanizing films chronicling the very people, places, and moments that have come to define America, not least of which was his grand magnum opus, "New York: A Documentary Film." Originally released in '99 and later expanded upon in the wake of 9/11, the colorful PBS miniseries took viewers on an 18-hour tour through a rapidly growing cityscape and the emerging sub-cultures therein, deftly weaving rich visuals and thoroughly penetrating narration into a bigger picture of social progress. The filmmaker has also helmed decidedly more intimate portraits of American culture with two artist-profile companion pieces: the keen meditation on photography "Ansel Adams" (2002) and the compelling modern-art audit "Andy Warhol" ('06), both of which bear the signature Burns subtitle "A Documentary Film."

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Highest rated movies

100% 88% Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Watchlist
100% 85% Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
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90% 72% Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq
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The Chinese Exclusion Act
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Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America
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The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation, the War for Independence, and the Making of America
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The Congress
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The Donner Party
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Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film
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Driving While Black
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America Director,
Writer
- 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Driving While Black Director - 2020
100% 88% Oliver Sacks: His Own Life Director - 2019
No Score Yet No Score Yet The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation, the War for Independence, and the Making of America Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 2017
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Chinese Exclusion Act Director - 2017
90% 72% Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq Producer - 2013
100% 85% Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film Director,
Writer,
Producer
- 2006
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film Director - 2002
No Score Yet 100% New York Director - 1999
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Donner Party Director,
Producer
- 1992
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Congress Screenwriter - 1989

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No Score Yet No Score Yet The Civil War Writer 1990