Ken Burns Partnership

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part documentary series, THE VIETNAM WAR, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film.

Jackie Robinson rises from humble origins to integrate Major League Baseball, performing brilliantly despite the threats and abuse he faces on and off the field and, in the process, challenges the prejudiced notions of what a black man can achieve.

The co-production of Florentine Films, Laura Ziskin Pictures, WETA and Ark Media, produced by Ken Burns and directed by Barak Goodman, tells the comprehensive story of cancer, from its first description in an ancient Egyptian scroll to the gleaming laboratories of modern research institutions.

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics.

Ken Burns tells the story of a tiny school in Vermont, the Greenwood School, where the students are encouraged to memorize and recite the Gettysburg Address. In its exploration of Greenwood, whose students, boys ages 11–17, all face a range of complex learning differences, the film also unlocks the history, context and importance of President Lincoln's powerful address.

The story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. The film chronicles The Central Park Jogger case, for the first time from the perspective of these five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice.

A two-part, four hour documentary, The Dust Bowl tells the story of the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history. The frenzied wheat boom of the “Great Plow-Up,” followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s, nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.

A three-part, five-and-a-half-hour series, Prohibition tells the story of the rise, rule, and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the entire era it encompassed.

A follow-up to their landmark series Baseball, this documentary from Emmy Award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynn Novick continues the story of "America's Pastime," chronicling events from the 1990s to the present day.

This six-part documentary series chronicles the human story behind the creation of America's national parks. 

This landmark film is the story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

Jack Johnson – the first African-American Heavyweight Champion of the World, whose dominance over his white opponents spurred furious debates and race riots in the early 20th century – is portrayed in this powerful film.

The Ken Burns American Stories collection of eight films includes Brooklyn Bridge, The Congress, Huey Long, The Shakers, The Statue of Liberty and Thomas Hart Benton.

In the spring of 1903, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." This was America's first transcontinental road trip, and like all road trips that would follow it included the usual mix of breakdowns, inedible meals and uncomfortable beds, getting lost and enduring bad weather – and having a truly unforgettable experience crossing the nation's vast landscape.

This four-hour portrait of one of America's funniest and most popular writers depicts the life and writings of Mark Twain. Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns notes that the film is actually two stories in one, "a dual biography" divided between Samuel Clemens, the author's birth name, and Mark Twain, the name he wrote by.

This ten-part film explores in detail the culture, politics and dreams that gave birth to jazz music, and follows this most American of art forms from its origins in blues and ragtime through swing, bebop and fusion.