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Ken Burns

Director · 30 credits · 6 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Central Park Five (2012)

Directed movies (18 total, ranked by score)

  1. The Central Park Five

    2012 · ★ 7.0 (120 votes)

    Documentary

    1

  2. Mark Twain

    2002 · ★ 7.0 (17 votes)

    Documentary

    2

  3. Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

    2003 · ★ 7.7 (9 votes)

    Documentary, History, TV Movie

    3

  4. The Mayo Clinic

    2018 · ★ 7.0 (7 votes)

    Documentary, TV Movie

    4

  5. Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson

    2004 · ★ 7.1 (26 votes)

    Documentary

    5

  6. The Address

    2014 · ★ 5.6 (6 votes)

    Documentary

    6

  7. Brooklyn Bridge

    1981 · ★ 7.2 (13 votes)

    Documentary, History

    7

  8. Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio

    1991 · ★ 7.5 (8 votes)

    Documentary, History

    8

  9. Thomas Hart Benton

    1989 · ★ 7.5 (4 votes)

    Documentary

    9

  10. Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War

    2016 · ★ 6.9 (17 votes)

    Documentary

    10

  11. The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God

    1984 · ★ 6.8 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    11

  12. Baseball: The Tenth Inning

    2010 · ★ 8.1 (8 votes)

    Documentary

    12

  13. Huey Long

    1985 · ★ 7.2 (9 votes)

    Documentary

    13

  14. The Statue of Liberty

    1985 · ★ 6.9 (15 votes)

    History, Documentary

    14

  15. The Congress

    1989 · ★ 7.6 (5 votes)

    Documentary, History

    15

  16. Seeing, Searching, Being: William Segal

    2010

    Documentary

    16

  17. Yosemite — A Gathering of Spirit

    2013

    Documentary

    17

  18. After the Central Park Five

    2013

    Documentary

    18

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 30, 2026.