---
name: "Stephen Ives"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephen-ives"
fi1m_id: "stephen-ives"
imdb_id: "nm0412350"
tmdb_id: 209939
wikidata_id: "Q7609554"
roles: ["Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T11:33:35.694032+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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# Stephen Ives

## Identity

Stephen Ives

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stephen-ives
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stephen-ives
- **IMDb ID:** nm0412350
- **TMDB ID:** 209939
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7609554
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Ives, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7609554, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412350/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/209939

Producer.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Ives, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7609554, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0412350/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/209939

## Streaming the US now

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

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## 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.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, pbs.org, dceff.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (26)

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

- *American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez* (2026), Executive Producer
- *Ruthless: Monopoly's Secret History* (2023), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Citizen Hearst* (2021), series, Director, Writer
- *Ailey* (2021), Executive Producer
- *Beatrix Farrand's American Landscapes* (2019), Director, Writer
- *Sealab* (2019), Director
- *Grand Coulee Dam* (2017), Director, Script
- *The Great War* (2017), series, Writer, Director
- *Space Men* (2016), Producer
- *The Big Burn* (2015), Director, Writer
- *1964* (2014), Writer, Director
- *Constitution USA with Peter Sagal* (2013), series, Director
- *Custer's Last Stand* (2012), Director, Writer
- *Panama Canal* (2011), Director
- *Roads to Memphis* (2010), Director
- *Kit Carson* (2008), Director
- *New Orleans* (2007), Director
- *Las Vegas: An Unconventional History: Part 1 - Sin City* (2005), Director
- *Reporting America at War* (2003), series, Director
- *Seabiscuit* (2003), Director, Producer
- *Amato: A Love Affair with Opera* (2001), Director, Producer
- *The West* (1996), series, Writer, Director
- *Baseball* (1994), series, Consulting Producer
- *Lindbergh* (1990), Director, Producer
- *The Civil War* (1990), series, Producer — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-civil-war.md)
- *American Experience* (1988), series, Director, Writer

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