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.
Ken Burns on Why Working With WETA Fits His Films
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Each of Ken Burns's films attempts to answer questions about the American experience, so it is not a mistake that he found his production partner, WETA, in the nation's capital, where so much of our national history is stored in repositories like the Library of Congress and the National Archives.
Ken Burns and WETA
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For 30 years, WETA has partnered with Ken Burns to co-produce and bring his remarkable documentaries to audiences nationwide. For information on how to support Ken Burns productions please contact Danielle Manning-Halsey, Senior Director, Principal and Major Gifts. dmanninghalsey@weta.org or 703-998-2812.
Ken Burns Discusses His History Working with WETA
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Ken Burns recounts the origins of his working relationship with WETA, which began decades ago when he met former WETA CEO Ward Chamberlain.
Upcoming Productions
WETA collaborations with Ken Burns and Florentine Films continue with the following films currently in production.
- 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.
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Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies
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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
