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Baseball(1994)

1h 43min per episode | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

This 1994 documentary by Ken Burns follows Baseball's saga, spanning the quest for racial justice, the clash of labor and management, the transformation of popular culture, and the unfolding of the national pastime.

Directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick

Supercar(1961-1962)

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

Supercar was a children's TV show produced by Gerry Anderson and Arthur Provis's AP Films for ATV and ITC Entertainment. 39 episodes were produced between 1961 and 1962, and it was Anderson's first half-hour series. In the UK it was seen on ITV and in the US in syndication. The format uses puppets in a technique called supermarionation, a name that was first seen in the closing titles of the last 13 episodes. The plot of the show consisted of Supercar, a vertical takeoff and landing craft invented by Rudolph Popkiss and Horatio Beaker, and piloted by Mike Mercury. On land it rode on a cushion of air rather than wheels. Jets in the rear allowed it to fly like a jet and retractable wings were incorporated in the back of the car. Retrorockets on the side of the car slowed the vehicle. The car used "Clear-Vu", which included an inside television monitor allowing the occupant to see through fog and smoke. The vehicle was housed in a laboratory and living facility at Black Rock, Nevada, U.S.A. In the show's first episode, "Rescue", the Supercar crew's first mission is to save the passengers of a downed private plane. Two of the rescued, young Jimmy Gibson and his pet monkey, Mitch, are invited to live at the facility and share in the adventures.

Directed by David Elliott, Desmond Saunders

The U.S. and the Holocaust(2022)

2h 12min per episode | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.

Directed by Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein - With Deborah Lipstadt

Prohibition(2011)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min per episode | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 19 votes)

The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.

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

2h per episode | Documentary
4.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - “The National Parks: America's Best Idea” is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.

Directed by Ken Burns

Hemingway(2021)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min per episode | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

The visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created.

Benjamin Franklin(2022)

1h 56min per episode | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Explore the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.

Country Music(2019)

1h 57min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Explore the history of a uniquely American art form: country music. From its deep and tangled roots in ballads, blues and hymns performed in small settings, to its worldwide popularity, learn how country music evolved over the course of the 20th century, as it eventually emerged to become America’s music.

Jackie Robinson(2016)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h per episode | Documentary
4.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Jack Roosevelt Robinson rose from humble origins to cross baseball’s color line and become one of the most beloved men in America. A fierce integrationist, Robinson used his immense fame to speak out against the discrimination he saw on and off the field, angering fans, the press, and even teammates who had once celebrated him for “turning the other cheek.” After baseball, he was a widely-read newspaper columnist, divisive political activist and tireless advocate for civil rights, who later struggled to remain relevant as diabetes crippled his body and a new generation of leaders set a more militant course for the civil rights movement.

Directed by Ken Burns - With Jamie Foxx

The Gene: An Intimate History(2020)

1h 55min per episode | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Ken Burns - With David Costabile, Edward Wild

The War(2008)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 4min per episode | Documentary, War & Politics, Crime
4.1/5 (with 26 votes)

The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.

Lewis & Clark - The Journey of the Corps of Discovery(1997)

2h per episode | Documentary, Western
3.7/5 (with 5 votes)

Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery tells the remarkable story of the entire Corps of Discovery – not just of the two Captains, but the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark’s African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacajawea, who brought along her infant son. As important to the story as these many characters, however, was the spectacular land itself, and the promises it held.

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The American Buffalo(2023)

1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The dramatic story of America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to the brink of extinction, before an unlikely collection of people rescues it from disappearing forever. Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world—and the unforgettable characters who pointed the nation in a different direction.

The Central Park Five(2012)

1h 59min | Documentary
3.6/5 (with 45 votes)

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 spent between 6 and 13 years in prison before a serial rapist confessed that he alone had committed the crime, leading to their convictions being overturned. Set against a backdrop of a decaying city beset by violence and racial tension, this is the story of that horrific crime, the rush to judgment by the police, a media clamoring for sensational stories and an outraged public, and the five lives upended by this miscarriage of justice.

Directed by Ken Burns

The Roosevelts: An Intimate History(2014)

4.2/5 (with 14 votes)

Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962.

Directed by Ken Burns - With Paul Giamatti

Not for Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton & Susan B. Anthony(1999)

1h 30min per episode | Documentary
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The little-known story of one of the most compelling political movements and friendships in American history.

Thomas Jefferson(1997)

1h 30min per episode | Documentary
4.4/5 (with 3 votes)

The complex life of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote that "all men are created equal" yet owned slaves, is recounted by master filmmaker Ken Burns in this probing documentary. Covering Jefferson's diplomatic work in France, his two presidential terms, his retirement at Monticello and more.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Youth Mental Illness(2022-)

2h per episode | Documentary

First-person accounts from young people ranging in age from 11-27 about living with mental health conditions.

Shooting the War(2010)

3h per episode | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Series looking at how WW2 was documented by German and British amateur home movie makers.

Dress Blues(2024-)

When a naive teenage immigrant enlists in the US Navy with dreams of becoming the first female admiral, she must choose between her career and her safety while diving into the scary and subversive lifestyle of the isolated military world.

Mark Twain(2002)

3h 32min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.

The Congress(1989)

1h 29min | Documentary, History
4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

For 200 years, the United States Congress has been one of the country's most important and least understood institutions. In this elegant, thoughtful and often touching portrait, Ken Burns explores the history and promise of this unique American institution. Using historical photographs and newsreels, evocative live footage and interviews with David Broder, Alistair Cooke, Cokie Roberts, Charles McDowell and others, the award-winning film chronicles the personalities, events and issues that have animated the first 200 years of Congress and, in turn, our country.

Medal of Honor(2008)

1h 26min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring.

Defying the Nazis: The Sharps' War(2016)

1h 30min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Join an American couple’s courageous mission in 1939 to help refugees escape Nazi-occupied Europe. Over the course of two years, the pair will risk their lives so that hundreds can live in freedom.

Directed by Ken Burns, Artemis Joukowsky - With Tom Hanks

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip(2003)

1h 47min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 2 votes)

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

Directed by Ken Burns

Muhammad Ali(2021)

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

Directed by Sarah Burns - With Walter Mosley, David Remnick, Don King, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story(2020)

1h 44min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 1 vote)

The history of the East Lake Meadows public housing project in Atlanta and the people who lived there from 1970 to its demolition in 2000, with special emphasis on the activism of Eva Davis asserting the rights of the tenants.

Directed by Sarah Burns

Country Music: Live at the Ryman(2019)

1h 55min | Music

Celebrated musicians perform at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium in anticipation of the soon-to-be-released "Country Music" documentary series by Ken Burns. Burns, plus some of his colleagues and some musicians, act as hosts and provide a brief history of country music as they introduce each act and show sneak peek excerpts from the series in between the live performances. Many of the musicians that appear in the documentary perform to demonstrate various country music styles including Dierks Bentley, Rosanne Cash, Ketch Secor, Rhiannon Giddens, Vince Gill, Kathy Mattea, Marty Stuart, Dwight Yoakam, and more.

The Warrior Tradition(2019)

56min | Documentary

The astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the United States military. Why do they do it? Why would Indian men and women put their lives on the line for the very government that took their homelands?

The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God(1984)

57min | Documentary
3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers. Ken Burns creates a moving portrait of this particularly American movement, and in the process, offers us a new and unusually moving way to understand the Shakers.

Directed by Ken Burns
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