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Ken Burns

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Kenneth Lauren Burns, known as Ken Burns, born in Brooklyn, New York, on 29 July 1953, is an American filmmaker and popular historical documentarian who has been active since 1976. He is an undergraduate of Hampshire College, and his works typically chronicle American history and culture. Within this atlas Ken Burns is credited on The Central Park Five. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Ken Burns, which this entry cites as its source.

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Primetime Emmy Award 1
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Grammy Award 1
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1953 1
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    Kenneth Lauren Burns (born July 29, 1953) is an American filmmaker and popular historical documentarian.
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    The Civil War received more than 40 major film and television awards, including two Emmy Awards, two Grammy Awards (one for Best Traditional Folk Album), the Producer of the Year Award from the Producers Guild of America, a People's Choice Award, a Peabody Award, a duPont-Columbia Award, a D.
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The Central Park Five (film), Wikipedia
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The Central Park Five is a 2012 documentary film about the Central Park jogger case, directed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, his daughter Sarah Burns, and her husband David McMahon.
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