For more than 35 years, WETA has proudly partnered with Ken Burns to bring landmark documentaries to the nation via public television.
This collaboration has produced many films including The Civil War, Jazz, Baseball, THE WAR, The National Parks: America's Best Idea, The Dust Bowl, The Roosevelts: An Intimate History, The Vietnam War and Country Music. WETA is delighted to play an important role in bringing these films to a viewing audience nationwide.
Ken Burns and his colleagues at Florentine Films are an astonishingly creative and successful team, and it is WETA's great pleasure to work with them.
Ken Burns and WETA: A Partnership for Over 35 Years
Watch acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns discuss his work and his decades-long partnership with WETA.
Upcoming Productions
WETA collaborations with Ken Burns and Florentine Films continue with the following films currently in production.
- Leonardo da Vinci (November 18 & 19, 2024)
The story of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, a fifteenth century Italian polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect who left behind artistic works of staggering beauty and detailed sketches of futuristic contraptions of warfare and flight that today are marveled for their technical ingenuity and foresight. - The American Revolution (2025)
A series on America’s founding struggle — a conflict that was both a war for independence, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away.
The Ken Burns Collection
Benjamin Franklin
History
Muhammad Ali
History
Hemingway
History
Baseball
History
Country Music
History
Brooklyn Bridge
History
Jazz
Arts and Music
Central Park Five
History
East Lake Meadows
History
Frank Lloyd Wright
History
Horatio's Drive
History
Jackie Robinson
History
Lewis & Clark
History
Mark Twain
History
Prohibition
History
The Roosevelts
History
The Congress
History
The War
History
Empire of the Air
History
The Civil War
History
The National Parks
History
The Shakers
History
The Statue of Liberty
History
The Address
Culture
The Mayo Clinic
History
Thomas Jefferson
History
Huey Long
History
The Vietnam War
History
The Dust Bowl
History
Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
Science and Nature