Ken Burns

Birth Name:

Kenneth Lauren Burns

Birth Place:

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Profession

Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Writer, Actor, Camera department, Music department

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Sun, Aug 6, 2017

The Handmaid's Tale Named Best TV Show at TCA Awards

Matt Roush's 10 Best TV Shows of the Year

1. FargoYou betcha we loved FX's sensational miniseries, inspired by the iconic film, which triumphantly mined new depths of icy evil amid heartfelt humanism. Noah Hawley's fable gave fabulous star turns to Billy Bob Thornton (a hit man), Martin Freeman (a mousy murderer), and ...

Wed, Dec 17, 2014

Matt Roush's 10 Best TV Shows of the Year

New Season Reviews: Red Band Society, Mysteries of Laura

One of the trickier balancing acts of the season is being performed by Fox's Red Band Society (Wednesday, 9/8c), which aims to be a feel-good show about kids who feel bad. As in indefinite-hospital-stay bad. Amputation bad. Eating disorder, heart disease and cancer bad.

Wed, Sep 17, 2014

New Season Reviews: Red Band Society, Mysteries of Laura

Weekend Review: Here Come The Roosevelts --- and More Zombies

Every few years, in a pattern established by his emblematic 1990 breakthrough The Civil War, documentary maestro Ken Burns upstages the fall TV season in mid-September with his latest monumental immersion in historical storytelling. He triumphs again with PBS's seven-night, 14-hour The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, which, as its subtitle suggests, never loses sight of the poignant human drama unfolding against a tide of national and world turmoil. (The series begins Sunday, Sept. 14 at 8/7c and continues nightly through Saturday, Sept. 20.)

Fri, Sep 12, 2014

Weekend Review: Here Come The Roosevelts --- and More Zombies

Tuesday TV: You Betcha, Fargo's Terrific

There's no place quite like the twisted heartland of FX's Fargo (Tuesday, 10/9c), a marvelous 10-episode variation on themes established in the quirky 1996 Oscar winning film. Once again, warm and neighborly small-town decency gives way to a bitter chill that has less to do with the snowy Minnesota plains than with the dark crevasses of human depravity.

Tue, Apr 15, 2014