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Born July 29, 1953 - After earning his BA at Hampshire College, Brooklyn-born Ken Burns pursued a career as a documentary filmmaker. At age 22, he formed Florentine Films in his home base of Walpole, New Hampshire. Dissatisfied with dry, scholarly historical documentaries, Burns wanted his films to "live," and to that end adopted the technique of cutting rapidly from o... Continue Bio >>

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Filmography:
2005 Wordplay
2000 Ken Burns' Jazz, Episode 1: Gumbo, Beginnings to 1917
1996 Thomas Jefferson
1993 Gettysburg
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