Ric Burns Filmography

Occupation:
Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

  • Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Philip Bosco, Josh Hamilton, Robert Sean Leonard, Laurie Anderson, Jeff Koons, Andy Warhol

    Synopsis: Documentary filmmaker Ric Burns explores the life and legacy of pop art's most beloved icon with this film that seeks to illuminate the public persona and creative complexity of painter, photographer, and filmmaker Andy Warhol. Host Laurie Anderson narrates as an erudite collection of curators Read More

    9/1/06

  • American Experience: Eugene O'Neill

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The compelling life story of America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright comes to the screen in a documentary featuring scenes performed by Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Liam Neeson, and Vanessa Redgrave, and originally produced as part of PBS's American Experience series. Despite intense Read More

    2006

  • The Way West

    Crew: Director

    Synopsis: Acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns takes an in-depth look at the final decades of the American frontier with a six-hour documentary tracing life in the American West from the Gold Rush to the massacre of American Indians at the hands of U.S. troops in the battle of Wounded Knee. As the new nation was Read More

    2006

  • The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo

    Crew: Consultant/advisor

    Synopsis: An artist whose life was as bold and startling as her work, Frida Kahlo battled physical infirmity and a male-dominated art establishment to become one of the most acclaimed and influential painters of her generation. Kahlo also had a passionate interest in politics with her leftist views informed Read More

    2004

  • New York, Episode 8: 1945-2003 - The Center of the World

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: Bebe Neuwirth, George Plimpton

    Synopsis: The three-hour documentary Center of the World is part of producer/director Ric Burns' massive 14 1/2-hour filmed history of New York City. More specifically, this film is an outgrowth of the five-minute coda to Burns' previous effort The City and the World: 1945 to Present, hastily added to Read More

    2003

  • American Experience: Ansel Adams - A Documentary Film

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: David Ogden Stiers, Josh Hamilton, Barbara Feldon, Eli Wallach

    Synopsis: Ansel Adams chronicles the life and art of one of America's best-loved photographers. Raised by a doting father who encouraged Adams' eccentricities, the young boy focused his intense energy on becoming a concert pianist. Adams discovered his life's work, however, when he visited Yosemite Valley Read More

    2002

  • New York, Episode 7: 1945 to Present - The City and the World

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: David Ogden Stiers

    2001

  • New York, Episode 6: 1929-1941 - City of Tomorrow

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: David Ogden Stiers

    2001

  • The Concert For New York City

    Synopsis: In the wake of the attacks on New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, many figures in the entertainment community stepped forward to offer their talents to raise money towards relief efforts for the victims and their survivors. On October 20, 2001, some of the biggest names in Read More

    2001

  • New York [TV Documentary Series]

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

    1999

  • New York, Episode 5: 1919-1931 - Cosmopolis

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: David Ogden Stiers

    Synopsis: Calling Prohibition a "noble experiment," New York congressman Fiorello La Guardia then declared the law unenforceable. Throughout most of New York City, this was the correct assessment. This is the fifth episode of the epic PBS documentary series about the "Big Apple." Also covered in this Read More

    1999

  • New York, Episode 2: 1825-1865 - Order and Disorder

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: David Ogden Stiers

    Synopsis: New York of the 19th century was already a haven of celebrities; showman P.T. Barnum's museum drew crowds on Broadway, and up the street the great photographer Mathew Brady stayed busy taking "likenesses" of the rich and famous. However, when British author Charles Dickens visited New York in Read More

    1999

  • New York, Episode 1: 1609-1825 - The Country and the City

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: David Ogden Stiers

    Synopsis: The "Big Apple" has a colorful, influential, and, at times, tragic history that spans nearly four hundred years. This is the first episode in the epic PBS documentary series about the most populous city in the United States. Originally christened "New Amsterdam" by its Dutch founders, the city is Read More

    1999

  • New York, Episode 4: 1898-1918 - The Power and the People

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

    Actors: David Ogden Stiers

    Synopsis: It was the fire that sparked reform; after 146 people -- mostly women and girls -- died in the ferocious 1911 blaze that gutted the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, it was discovered that the exits had been locked by the management to prevent theft by the workers. At the time, there were no fire laws Read More

    1999

  • New York, Episode 3: 1865-1898 - Sunshine and Shadow

    Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: With the Civil War settled, New York could focus solely on the business of business and getting rich. Central Park finally became a true park instead of a shantytown, and "Boss Tweed" ran the city like his own private fiefdom, ultimately leading to the rise of righteous reformers such as Theodore Read More

    1999

  • The Way West: The Approach of Civilization, 1865-1869

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Ric Burns' four-part series The Way West focuses on the often untold history of American expansion. Written from the Native American perspective, the documentary begins with the Gold Rush of the 1840s. With an ever-increasing Anglo population, the West became a hotbed of racial strife. The Way Read More

    1995

  • The Way West: Westward - The Course of Empire Takes its Way, 1845-1864

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Ric Burns' four-part series The Way West explores the short and violent history of American expansion. Taking its title from philosopher George Berkeley's beliefs in manifest destiny, The Way West: Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1845-1864 focuses on the history of the West from 1845 Read More

    1995

  • The Way West: Ghost Dance, 1877-1893

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: Ric Burns' four-part series The Way West comes to an end with the final episode The Way West: Ghost Dance, 1877-1893. Chronicling these years, the release again focuses on the Native American perspective. Western expansion meant the death of many Indian rights and the seizure of tribal lands. Read More

    1995

  • The Way West: The War for the Black Hills, 1870-1876

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: The Way West gives an unprecedented look at the untold history of the West. Bypassing brave pioneers and burly outlaws, director Ric Burns focuses on Native American sacrifices. The Way West: The War for the Black Hills, 1870-1876 documents the continuing battle for territory between these years. Read More

    1995

  • American Experience: Coney Island

    Crew: Director, Producer

    Synopsis: The emergence of American mass culture is intimately connected to the history of Coney Island. From the mid-1800s, New York's Coney Island emerged as a playland where the fabulous and fantastic met. Coney Island is Ric Burns' loving documentary about a unique time and place in American history Read More

    1993

  • American Experience: The Donner Party

    Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

    Synopsis: In 1846, a group of over eighty Westward-bound pioneers were headed to the coast of California from Illinois, which had itself only recently been brought up to "civilized" status. They made it to a pass high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California when they were halted by a truly monstrous Read More

    1992

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