Ken Burns

 Ken Burns (in full Kenneth Lauren Burns) was born on the 29th of July 1953 in Brooklyn, New York. He is an American documentary filmmaker. His father, who was a professor at the University of Michigan, taught the art of directing films. He received a bachelor's in with honors in 1975 from Hampshire College, Amherst. Alongside Buddy Squires, cinematographer, and Paul Barnes, Burns founded Florentine Films in 1975, which was a production company for documentary films. It was his first major production, Brooklyn Bridge (1981). It laid the foundation for his career as a filmmaker of films about American cultural and historical events. The Shakers (1984), The Statue of Liberty (85) and Huey Long (85) were among his films. Burns's 1991 television series The Civil War, which ran for 11 hours, established his standing as an accomplished film maker. Burns created a sense of movement in the still photographs that were exhibited throughout the film by employing his signature technique of panning the camera over them , and zooming in on specifics. The series won two Emmy Awards and earned record revenue.