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Jazz (2000)

6.4/10
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Bil...

Inspired by blues and ragtime, it made its way up the Mississippi and spread across America, evolving along the way into a variety of forms. Filmmaker... Read more

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005)

8.3/10
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Muhammad Ali, Adam Arkin, Philip Bosco, Keith David, Jack Johnson, Samuel L Jack...

Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns employs his inimitable laid back style to explore the life of flambloyant heavyweight boxer, Jack Johnson. Born to... Read more

The Dust Bowl (2012)

8.2/10
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Narrated by, Peter Coyote

"The Dust Bowl" chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, when a frenzied wheat boom on the Southern Plains, followed by... Read more

The Civil War (1990)

9.1/10
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Narrated by, David McCullough

Director Ken Burns' ('Jazz', 'Frank Lloyd Wright') most acclaimed documentary series is a comprehensive chronicle of the American Civil War. Over elev... Read more

The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)

8.6/10
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Narrated by, Peter Coyote

The American national parks sprung from a radical idea that the most precious portions of the land should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, b... Read more

Muhammad Ali (2021)

8.6/10
Director: Ken Burns
Starring: Muhammad Ali

An in-depth look at the life of boxer, Muhammad Ali, including his years as an activist and philanthropist. Read more

Mark Twain (2001)

8.4/10
Director: Ken Burns

Nearly three years in the making and drawing from 63 hours of material, thousands of archival photographs and nearly 20 interviews with top writers an... Read more

The Central Park Five (2012)

7.7/10
Director: Ken Burns, Sarah Burns, David McMahon

In 1989, five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem were arrested and later convicted of raping a white woman in New York City's Central Park. They s... Read more

Frank Lloyd Wright (1997)

7.8/10
Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick
Starring: Frank Lloyd Wright

An absorbing study of U.S. architect Frank Lloyd Wright's tumultuous life and career. Using all manner of original photographs, plans, home movies of... Read more

The War (2007)

9.1/10
Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

Ken Burns presents a fourteen-part documentary on World War Two, focusing on the impact it had on the people involved - the soldiers and the families... Read more

Hemingway (2021)

8.1/10
Director: Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

Ken Burns and Lynn Novick examine the visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers Amer... Read more