I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

At 22 upon graduation he and two college friends founded Florentine Films in Walpole New Hampshire. For example in a photograph of a baseball team he might slowly pan across the faces of the players and come to rest on the player who is the subject of the narrator. In endorsing Barack Obama for the U.

Kenneth Lauren "Ken" Burns (born July 29 1953) is an American director and producer of documentary films known for his style of using archival footage and photographs.