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American Experience: The Donner Party
(1992)
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Ric Burns
In 1846, a group of over eighty Westward-bound pioneers were headed to the coast of California from Illinois, which had itself only recently been brought up to "civilized" status. They made it to a pass high in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California when they were halted by a truly monstrous blizzard, followed by the snows of one of the worst ...
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American Experience: Ansel Adams - A Documentary Film
(2002)
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Ric Burns
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David Ogden Stiers, Josh Hamilton, Barbara Feldon, Eli Wallach
Ansel Adams chronicles the life and art of one of America's best-loved photographers. Raised by a doting father who encouraged Adams' eccentricities, the young boy focused his intense energy on becoming a concert pianist. Adams discovered his life's work, however, when he visited Yosemite Valley with his family in 1916 and his father presented him ...
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American Experience: Coney Island
(1993)
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Ric Burns
The emergence of American mass culture is intimately connected to the history of Coney Island. From the mid-1800s, New York's Coney Island emerged as a playland where the fabulous and fantastic met. Coney Island is Ric Burns' loving documentary about a unique time and place in American history where both the hot dog and the roller coaster were ...
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New York, Episode 8: 1945-2003 - The Center of the World
(2003)
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Ric Burns
featuring
Bebe Neuwirth, George Plimpton
The three-hour documentary Center of the World is part of producer/director Ric Burns' massive 14 1/2-hour filmed history of New York City. More specifically, this film is an outgrowth of the five-minute coda to Burns' previous effort The City and the World: 1945 to Present, hastily added to acknowledge the horrendous terrorist attack of September ...
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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
(2006)
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directed by
Ric Burns
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Jeff Koons, Josh Hamilton, Laurie Anderson, Philip Bosco, Robert Sean Leonard, Andy Warhol
Documentary filmmaker Ric Burns explores the life and legacy of pop art's most beloved icon with this film that seeks to illuminate the public persona and creative complexity of painter, photographer, and filmmaker Andy Warhol. Host Laurie Anderson narrates as an erudite collection of curators, critics, and biographers dispel Warhol's own self ...
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The Way West
(2006)
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Ric Burns
Acclaimed filmmaker Ric Burns takes an in-depth look at the final decades of the American frontier with a six-hour documentary tracing life in the American West from the Gold Rush to the massacre of American Indians at the hands of U.S. troops in the battle of Wounded Knee. As the new nation was born, the inhabitants of the old world were left to ...
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American Experience: Eugene O'Neill
(2006)
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Ric Burns
The compelling life story of America's only Nobel Prize-winning playwright comes to the screen in a documentary featuring scenes performed by Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, Liam Neeson, and Vanessa Redgrave, and originally produced as part of PBS's American Experience series. Despite intense family drama and raging inner turmoil, Eugene O'Neill ...
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The Way West: Westward - The Course of Empire Takes its Way, 1845-1864
(1995)
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Ric Burns' four-part series The Way West explores the short and violent history of American expansion. Taking its title from philosopher George Berkeley's beliefs in manifest destiny, The Way West: Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1845-1864 focuses on the history of the West from 1845 to the end of the Civil War. Ric Burns presents an ...
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New York, Episode 4: 1898-1918 - The Power and the People
(1999)
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Ric Burns
featuring
David Ogden Stiers
It was the fire that sparked reform; after 146 people -- mostly women and girls -- died in the ferocious 1911 blaze that gutted the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, it was discovered that the exits had been locked by the management to prevent theft by the workers. At the time, there were no fire laws in the city, and few laws protecting workers. As ...
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New York, Episode 5: 1919-1931 - Cosmopolis
(1999)
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Ric Burns
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David Ogden Stiers
Calling Prohibition a "noble experiment," New York congressman Fiorello La Guardia then declared the law unenforceable. Throughout most of New York City, this was the correct assessment. This is the fifth episode of the epic PBS documentary series about the "Big Apple." Also covered in this program is the deportation of pacifist and anarchist Emma ...
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New York, Episode 2: 1825-1865 - Order and Disorder
(1999)
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Ric Burns
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David Ogden Stiers
New York of the 19th century was already a haven of celebrities; showman P.T. Barnum's museum drew crowds on Broadway, and up the street the great photographer Mathew Brady stayed busy taking "likenesses" of the rich and famous. However, when British author Charles Dickens visited New York in 1842, the poverty and squalor he witnessed in New York ...
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New York, Episode 3: 1865-1898 - Sunshine and Shadow
(1999)
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Ric Burns
With the Civil War settled, New York could focus solely on the business of business and getting rich. Central Park finally became a true park instead of a shantytown, and "Boss Tweed" ran the city like his own private fiefdom, ultimately leading to the rise of righteous reformers such as Theodore Roosevelt. This is the third episode of the epic ...
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New York, Episode 7: 1945 to Present - The City and the World
(2001)
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Ric Burns
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David Ogden Stiers
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The Way West: The War for the Black Hills, 1870-1876
(1995)
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Ric Burns
The Way West gives an unprecedented look at the untold history of the West. Bypassing brave pioneers and burly outlaws, director Ric Burns focuses on Native American sacrifices. The Way West: The War for the Black Hills, 1870-1876 documents the continuing battle for territory between these years. With the completion of the transcontinental ...
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The Way West: Ghost Dance, 1877-1893
(1995)
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Ric Burns
Ric Burns' four-part series The Way West comes to an end with the final episode The Way West: Ghost Dance, 1877-1893. Chronicling these years, the release again focuses on the Native American perspective. Western expansion meant the death of many Indian rights and the seizure of tribal lands. Having already conceded vast territories to gold ...
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New York [TV Documentary Series]
(1999)
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Ric Burns
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