Ken Burns

October 21, 2026 | 7:30 p.m.
Wait Chapel

Individual event tickets on sale Monday, August 3.

Documentary Filmmaker and Historian

MORE ABOUT KEN BURNS

Ken Burns has been making documentary films for almost fifty years. Since the Academy Award nominated “Brooklyn Bridge” in 1981, Ken has gone on to direct and produce some of the most acclaimed historical documentaries ever made, including “The Civil War,” “Baseball,” “Jazz,” “The War,” “The National Parks: America’s Best Idea,” “Prohibition,” “The Roosevelts: An Intimate History,” “The Vietnam War,” “Country Music,” “The U.S. and the Holocaust,” “The American Buffalo,” “Leonardo da Vinci” and, most recently, “The American Revolution.”

Future film projects include “Emancipation to Exodus” and “LBJ & the Great Society,” among others.

Ken’s films have been honored with dozens of major awards, including seventeen Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards and two Oscar nominations. In September of 2008, at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards, Ken was honored by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences with a Lifetime Achievement Award. In November of 2022, Ken was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame.