Biography
Stephen Ives is an American documentary filmmaker and director. He began his career in public television and worked as a co-producer on Ken Burns’s series The Civil War (1990).
He directed the landmark PBS series The West (1996), which reached more than 38 million viewers on its initial broadcast. Ives has directed more than a dozen films for the American Experience series and later works including Reporting America at War (2003) and the six-hour series The Great War (2017).
A Harvard graduate, Ives is the founder of Insignia Films. His projects have earned a Primetime Emmy Award, a Writers Guild of America award, and a Directors Guild of America nomination.
