
Actor
Ken Burns
Filmography

Henry David Thoreau
2026
Director · Writer · creator

The American Revolution
2025
creator

Leonardo da Vinci
2024
Director · Writer · creator

Ken Burns: One Nation, Many Stories
2024
Actor

Spirit of Golf
2023
Actor

The U.S. and the Holocaust
2022
creator

Benjamin Franklin
2022
Director

The Unmaking of a College
2022
Actor

'Tis the Season: The Holidays on Screen
2022
Actor

De la poussière et des hommes
2021
Director

Muhammad Ali
2021
Director · Writer

Hemingway
2021
Director

Here For A Good Time
2020
Actor

Ken Burns: Here & There
2020
Actor

Henry Louis Gates Jr.: Uncovering America
2019
Actor

Very Ralph
2019
Actor

The Mayo Clinic
2018
Director · Writer

Jackie Robinson
2016
Director

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War
2016
Director

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History
2014
Director · Writer · creator

OETA's On the Record: Ken Burns
2014
Actor

The Address
2014
Director

After the Central Park Five
2013
Director · Writer

Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit
2013
Director · Actor

The Central Park Five
2012
Director · Writer

The Dust Bowl
2012
Director

Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
2012
Actor

Prohibition
2011
creator

Baseball: The Tenth Inning
2010
Director · Writer · creator

A Hall for Heroes: The Inaugural Hall of Fame Induction of 1939
2010
Actor

Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal
2010
Director

Baseball: The Tenth Inning
2010
Director · Writer

The National Parks: America's Best Idea
2009
Director

The War
2007
Director

Wordplay
2006
Actor

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2005
Director

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
2004
Director

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
2003
Director

Mark Twain
2002
Director

Mark Twain
2002
Director

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
Actor

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony
1999
Director

Frank Lloyd Wright
1998
Director

Thomas Jefferson
1997
Director · Writer

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery
1997
Director

Baseball
1994
Writer

Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
1991
Director

Thomas Hart Benton
1989
Director

The Congress
1989
Director

The Statue of Liberty
1985
Director

Huey Long
1985
Director

The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
1984
Director

Brooklyn Bridge
1981
Director

The Gettysburg Book: A Father, Son & The Killer Angels
Actor