Ric Burns

Ric Burns
Ric Burns (left) with Brian Keane (1995)
Born	1955 (age 68–69) Baltimore, Maryland
Nationality	American
Occupation(s)	Filmmaker, writer

Ric Burns (born 1955) is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. He has written, directed and produced historical documentaries since the 1990s. He was involved in the making of the PBS series The Civil War (1990), which he produced with his older brother Ken Burns.

Some movies

• Coney Island (1991)
• The Donner Party (1992) on the Donner Party
• The Way West (1995)
• New York: A Documentary Film (1999; expanded 2003)
• Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film (2002)
• Columbia: A Celebration (2003)
• Eugene O'Neill: A Documentary Film (2006)
• Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film (2006)
• We Shall Remain (2009), on Native Americans
• Into the Deep: America, Whaling & the World (2010)
• Nantucket (2011)
• Death and the Civil War (2012)
• Enquiring Minds: The Untold Story of the Man Behind the National Enquirer (2014)
• American Ballet Theatre: A History (2015)
• Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History (2015)
• The Pilgrims (2015)
• VA: The Human Cost of War (2017)
• The Chinese Exclusion Act (2018)
• Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (2019)
• Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America (2020)

Other websites

• Steeplechase Films
• WGBH-Eugene O'Neill
• Andy Warhol Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
• New York: A Documentary Film Archived 2017-05-07 at the Wayback Machine
• The Donner Party
• Ansel Adams: A Documentary Film Archived 2017-02-22 at the Wayback Machine
• Ric Burns on IMDb
• The Other Civil War, Newsweek