---
name: "Ric Burns"
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fi1m_id: "ric-burns"
imdb_id: "nm0122849"
tmdb_id: 91394
wikidata_id: "Q7322454"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:33:32.463477+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Ric Burns

## Identity

Ric Burns

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ric-burns
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ric-burns
- **IMDb ID:** nm0122849
- **TMDB ID:** 91394
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7322454
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Burns, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322454, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122849/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91394

Producer. Born 1 January 1955 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1955, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ric_Burns, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7322454, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0122849/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/91394

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Civil War*](https://film.one/tv/the-civil-war.md) (87)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Ric Burns is an American documentary filmmaker and writer. Born in 1955 in Baltimore, Maryland, he studied at Columbia University and the University of Cambridge before joining his brother Ken Burns on the production of the PBS series *The Civil War* (1990), for which he served as producer and co-writer.

In 1989 he founded Steeplechase Films. He has written, directed and produced numerous historical documentaries, including several episodes of the PBS series *American Experience* such as *Coney Island* (1991) and *The Donner Party* (1992). He is also known for the multi-part series *New York: A Documentary Film* (1999–2003). His work has received multiple Emmy Awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, ricburns.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Civil War* (1990), Fi1m 87, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-civil-war.md)

## Complete filmography (34)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Dante: Inferno to Paradise* (2024), series, Director, Creator
- *Oliver Sacks: His Own Life* (2021), Director
- *Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility in America* (2020), Director
- *Made for Each Other: A History of the Bond Between Humans and Dogs* (2019), Director
- *The People of the Standing Stone: The Oneida Nation, The War for Independence, And The Making of America* (2017), Director
- *The Chinese Exclusion Act* (2017), Writer, Director
- *The Mayflower Pilgrims: Behind The Myth* (2016), Writer, Director
- *Aufbruch in die neue Welt* (2016), Director
- *The Pilgrims* (2015), Director
- *American Ballet Theatre: A History* (2015), Director
- *Enquiring Minds: The Untold Story of the Man Behind the National Enquirer* (2014), Director, Writer
- *Death and the Civil War* (2012), Director
- *Nantucket* (2011), Director
- *Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World* (2010), Writer, Director
- *We Shall Remain* (2009), series, Writer, Director
- *Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film* (2006), Director, Writer
- *Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film* (2006), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *New York: The Center of the World* (2003), Director, Writer
- *Ansel Adams* (2002), Director
- *The Concert for New York City* (2001), Director, Producer, Writer
- *New York: A Documentary Film* (2001), Director, Writer, Producer
- *New York: The City and the World* (2001), Director, Writer
- *New York: The City of Tomorrow* (2001), Director
- *New York: A Documentary Film* (1999), Director
- *New York: Sunshine and Shadow (1865–1898)* (1999), Director
- *New York: Order and Disorder (1825–1865)* (1999), Director
- *New York* (1999), series, Writer, Director, Creator
- *New York: The Country And The City (1609-1825)* (1999), Director
- *New York Underground* (1997), Director
- *The Way West* (1995), series, Director, Producer, Writer
- *The Donner Party* (1992), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Coney Island* (1991), Director, Producer
- *The Civil War* (1990), series, Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-civil-war.md)
- *American Experience* (1988), series, Producer, Director, Writer

## Gallery

- ![Ric Burns](https://film.one/media/person/6777443/gallery-33096539b875.jpg) Ric Burns — Bearmee1, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/Brian_Keane_with_Director_Ric_Burns.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Ric Burns](https://film.one/media/person/6777443/gallery-2bdc00c0a41f.jpg) Ric Burns — Image via TMDB

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