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born 1953 United States

Kenneth Lauren Burns (29 July, 1953 –) is the acclaimed American director of many documentary series such as The Civil War, The Vietnam War, and Baseball.

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One would think that making a film is an additive process; you're building this—it's not, it's subtractive. The best metaphor I know of is we make maple syrup in [Walpole, New Hampshire] and it takes forty gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup. And that's what the process is.

Being an American means reckoning with a history fraught with violence and injustice. Ignoring that reality in favor of mythology is not only wrong but also dangerous. The dark chapters of American history have just as much to teach us, if not more, than the glorious ones, and often the two are intertwined.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ken Burns (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.